Gigabit Ethernet Hardware Design - Phil’s Lab #143

Basics of designing hardware with Gigabit Ethernet MACs, PHYs, and MagJack RJ45 connectors. Covering signalling (RGMII, MDIO), PHY selection, schematic walkthrough, and PCB design. PCBs by PCBWay [SUPPORT] Hardware design courses: Course content: Patreon: Altium Designer Free Trial: @AltiumOfficial #AltiumStories [GIT] [SOCIAL] [LINKS] Zynq Ethernet Firmware Tutorial: MII Wiki: Rick Hartley Grounding: Zach Peterson Ethernet Grounding: Various Ethernet articles/guidelines/app notes/videos: [TIMESTAMPS] 00:00 Intro 01:54 PCBWay 02:31 Altium Designer Free Trial 03:02 Basics 06:07 Media-Independent Interface (MII) 07:12 PCB Overview 08:52 Choice of PHY 12:51 PHY Datasheet 15:18 Strapping Pins 16:42 Schematic - MAC 18:17 Schematic - PHY 20:46 Schematic - RGMII, Series Term., Strapping 25:18 Schematic - MDIO, Control, Clock 26:51 Schematic - MDI & MagJack 29:57 PCB - Resources 31:42 PCB - Stack-Up & Impedance Control 35:12 PCB - Layout 36:47 PCB - RGMII 42:15 PCB - MagJack 44:02 PCB - QFN Layout/Decoupling 45:34 Outro