Courses offered
- Advanced Signal and Power Integrity Course (Syllabus) – Starts on February 26th 2023 !! Hurry up to subscribe
- S parameters for High-Speed Digital Interfaces
- Signal and Power Integrity with simulations lab
- Introduction to Signal Integrity
About the courses
So far, hundreds of top engineers from Israeli high-tech industries have participated in ZEROBER’s Signal Integrity courses. The courses have been taught for 13 years and receive many accolades, as evidenced by feedback. The content balances theory (not too much but not too little) with practical knowledge, incorporating tens of practical examples from simulations, measurements, and real-world circuits. The courses summarize tens of practical design guide-lines in a multi-constrain environment; their purpose is to teach engineers the practical side of Signal and Power Integrity along with an understanding of all the constraints, tradeoffs, and connection to the PCB/PKG production processes. All of these will teach and train engineers to deal with Signal Integrity challenges in the best, quickest, and least expensive way and to base their designs on knowledge rather than old and dangerous rules of thumb. The courses equip participants with simple and intuitive formulas that allow them to quickly and simply check whether there is potential for Signal Integrity problems, in order to avoid wasting time and resources. At the same time, with advances in technology and digital data rates, ZEROBER also offers advanced courses to meet new Signal Integrity challenges.
About the lecturer – Dror Haviv
Dror received his Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the Electromagnetic and Microwave program at Ben-Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel). He is one of Israel’s leading Signal and Power Integrity (SI/PI) engineers and has years of design, analysis, measurement, and teaching experience in the Signal Integrity field behind him.
Today, Dror serves as a Technologist at the Signal and Power Integrity team at Western Digital ASIC platform engineering organization. His job duties include flash controllers’ (ASIC) Signal and Power Integrity design, silicon die and package co-design, modeling, system level Signal and Power Integrity simulations and correlation analysis of die/package SI/PI parameters between simulation and measurement results.
2010-2019, Dror served as the Signal Integrity Focal Point and Architect of the R&D division at Rafael. As a Signal Integrity Architect, he designed, analyzed, simulated, and measured dozens of systems and high-speed PCBs. As focal point, he has qualified, educated, trained, and supervised many engineers in the Signal Integrity field. Simultaneously, he served as a Senior Signal Integrity Cooperate Researcher and has conducted several research projects in the field. His research has been presented in conferences on Signal Integrity, both in Israel and abroad.
Course Types
- Private courses: The subjects will be built in collaboration with the client and customized to the company’s needs.
- Public courses: at the same time, ZEROBER works in collaboration with leading colleges where it teaches Signal and Power Integrity courses. A public course is especially suitable for small companies with few engineers.
Course participants – feedback from various courses
- “A comprehensive course that covers all the important phenomena with examples and explanations. It is recommended and desirable to come prepared with questions. A very organized lecturer who is attentive to questions. Recommended!”
- “A comprehensive, professional, and in-depth advanced course. A veteran engineer will also benefit from it. A good balance between theoretical discussions and practice. The lecturer shows great understanding in all areas of PCB design.”
- “Dror has extensive experience and doesn’t just teach theory. Throughout the lecture, he incorporated excellent examples and addressed many topics that developers encounter daily.”
- “Dror found time throughout the lecture to answer questions and develop in-depth discussions. Beyond the depth, he always made sure to give the bottom line and emphasize the practical side.”
- “Dror incorporated simulations into the presentation and demonstrated the material in a practical way.”
- “Dror Haviv is an excellent lecturer. He knows the material thoroughly and has a high pedagogical ability.”
- “Dror is one of the best lecturers I’ve seen recently – a true professional who knows how to deliver the material.”
- “Dror is an excellent lecturer with vast and comprehensive knowledge of the subject, who delivered the material in an interesting and effective way.”
- “An eloquent, professional, and knowledgeable lecturer who delivered the course practically and professionally.”
- “The lecturer comes to lectures prepared and delivers the material systematically and clearly.”
- “A great lecturer who delivered the material in an excellent and relevant way. He answered every question and always gave explanations.”
- “The lecturer was clear, orderly, and demonstrated a deep understanding of the material.”
- “The course is really great – a must for every board designer.”
- “The topics are essential for every board designer. The handouts are excellent and can be used by participants after completing the course.”
- “This is, without a doubt, by far the best course I’ve been to so far”
- “A very comprehensive and high-level course.”
- “An important and excellent course! The current format is very in-depth.”
- “The course was fascinating and very conducive to my field of work.”
- “The most conducive and important course I have taken. In my humble opinion, this course should be taught to all board designers biannually as a refresher.”
- “Excellent course. Dror Haviv delivered the course well and thoroughly.”
- “The course explains and gives examples of design considerations in PCB design.”
- This was a very comprehensive 5-day course. It covers all the basics, and everything related to signal integrity up to multi-GHz SerDes and power integrity. Dror has vast theoretical and practical knowledge. In my opinion, this course is a MUST for every board designer, SI engineer, and PCB layout engineer. The presentation was very clear, with many simulated examples.
- One of the most practical courses I’ve done and by far the best SI PI course out there.
- This course was 5 days packed with information! It covers the signal and power integrity issues we will all likely encounter but not necessarily understand. Dror is clear and informative, and the material was conveyed comprehensively, step by step, with the correct order. In my opinion, this course is a MUST for board designers and SI engineers, on how to deal with mid- to high-range Hz. We got a full color printout so that we can go over the material later when we need it. Thanks, Dror! I highly recommend.
- This course is a must for every board designer. Anyone who has worked for over 1-2 years doing board design and wants to gain some basic knowledge in this field needs this course to move forward. Dror is an amazing lecturer; he takes the time to answer every question and has very comprehensive knowledge in this field. I have been in several electrical engineering courses in the past and Dror is the best lecturer I have encountered.
- A brilliant course! The course linked the theory of electromagnetic fields and waveforms to the practicality of PCB design. It gives a new perspective of the best way to design a board, giving considering to traces, power, and layout constraints, and more, from single MHz to multi-GHz. This is one of the best courses I have attended and definitely the most comprehensive for a designer of any level. Dror was very clear and explained all the complex issues in easily understandable, bite-sized chunks.
- A comprehensive, intensive course. A talented and professional lecturer. The presentations are presented clearly and beautifully. Well done!
