
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
Publications
Projects

Extension board for Arty Z7
Mar 2023 - May 2023
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;...

TiCE-MFV
Jan 2024 - Present
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.
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STM43F407 VBOT-BASE
May 2023 - Aug 2023
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
Achievements
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.
Posted on June 20, 2025