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Hồng Thiện Nhân

PCB Hardware Engineer

Targeting to be an excellent Hardware Engineer, I constantly make great efforts to build a concrete foundation, upgrade my skills, and sharpen my engineering mindset. I always feel I'm not good enough, but I do believe that practice makes perfection!

Experience

Electronics/Hardware Engineer Internship

Bosch Global Software Technologies Vietnam

Jun 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Participate in hardware projects, work with electronics device, and design PCB with Altium Designer.
    • Design PCB with Altium Designer.
    • PCB test with industrial standard.
    • Work with high-end electronic measuring/testing equipment.
  • Participate in Hardware internship training:
    • Layout process.
    • Hardware product development process.
    • Revert Engineering process
    • Switching Regulator calculation and design.

Educations

Ho Chi Minh University of Technology

B.eng Computer Engineering - Computer Engineering

Sep 2021 - Present

Projects

The extension board with integrated switches, single LEDs, and 7-seg LEDs support the use of Arty Z7 FPGA.

General specs:

  • Eight switches with LEDs indicating logic level, isolated from the Arty Z7.
  • Four single LEDs indicating the logic level.
  • Four 7-segment LEDs are driven by CD74HC4511 BCD-to-7 Segment Latch/Decoder/Drivers.
  • All LEDs are driven by BJTs to control drive current from the logic pin is 5uA and the supply current to drive LEDs is 5mA.

Expressway Monitoring

Aug 2023 - Present

A system to monitor land subsidence of highways in Australia
In collaboration with professors at Griffith University, Australia, and lecturers at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - VNUHCM
My role and contributions: As a project member, I contributed to:

  • The Hardware detailed specifications for the IoT Gateway and Sensor Readers.
    • Gateway supports a wide range of interfaces such as Modbus 485 RTU, eMMC, LoRa, NB-IoT, Ethernet,...; meets a wide range of electrical requirements such as industrial components for harsh operating conditions, ESD protection, low power consumption,...
    • Sensor Reader supports 4 channels 16-bit ADC, Modbus 485 RTU, ESD protection,...
  • Designed and implemented PCBs for the Gateway and Sensor Readers: 6-layer PCB with over 250 electronic components; dual-footprint for flexible computing-core options; multiple-layer BGA footprint components; sensitive data bus;...

Multifunctional vehicle researched and developed to serve TickLab and CEAC's academic activities
Work with team includes PCB hardware, embedded software, mechanical - mechatronics roles.
My role and contributions: As a project manager and PCB hardware designer, I contributed to:

  • Research and development for the functional system, electric - electronics, embedded, and steering system.
  • PCB hardware design and mentoring in embedded software.
  • TiCE-MFVs1 sample is available for product testing.
  • The TiCE-MFV detailed specifications:
    • The vehicle is operated by steering system, is equipped many sensors, modules for multiple purposes.
    • Use high-performance MCU for processing of multiple sensor data signals and control the vehicle.
    • The vehicle has Bluetooth 5.0 for remote control and wireless data transmission.
    • The vehicle is powered by battery, is integrated charging system and battery protection.

STM32F407 DISC1 baseboard dedicated to four-wheel vehicular robot controlling
General specs:

  • Support a wide range of communication interfaces:
    • 02 level-tolerant UART ports
    • 01 USB port with CP2102 Classic USB Bridges
    • 02 CAN ports with onboard CAN controllers
    • 04 independent motor ports for external motor drivers and encoders connection
    • Buffered general purposes I/O
  • 4-layer PCB with over 150 electronic components.
  • All the interfaces are isolated or buffered.
  • Onboard voltage regulator. Support power supply ranges from 9 to 36V.
  • Onboard programmer’s debugging interfaces: Switches, buttons, 7-segment LEDs,...

Certifications

Advanced PCB Layout

FEDEVEL Academy

Issued March 2024

  • Placement
  • Basic Rules & Basic Stackup, Fanout under CPU, DDR3 preliminary layout
  • Board fanout, Planning Layout, Crosstalk, Impedances & Stackup
  • High Speed Design Rules & Routing, Layer ordering
  • Number of layers, Layout
  • Length matching, About memory routing, Polygons & Power Planes
  • Checking PCB, Length tuning, Finishing PCB, Generating & Checking gerber files

Altium Education PCB Basic Design Course

Altium Limited

Issued October 2024

  • Schematics and Libraries
  • PCB Layout
  • Routing and Basic Signal Integrity
  • PCB Manufacturing
  • Power Analyzer
  • Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Chain

Blogs

Parasitic Impedance and Signal Reflection

This article covers key RF PCB design concepts, focusing on impedance, parasitic effects, and signal reflection in high-frequency signal integrity.

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Posted on June 20, 2025