Hello everyone,
I am currently studying electrical engineering in Germany, sadly we have no course about PCB layout and design and as far as I could find out not even a professor with experience in this field

. Since we have semester breaks right now I thought it might be good to idea to try it out a bit. Previously I was just building my circuits on perfboard so I have no idea how to design a good layout especially with SMD components.
This design is just a DC-DC converter and a h-bridge with a SM72295 full bridge driver, however at somewhat high currents (7A-10A@40V). Also the switching frequency of the DC-DC converter is quite high with up to 1.5MHz so EMI could become a problem.
To adress the problems I filled in most copper parts with areas, split the ground plane and tried to keep the tracks as short as possible but I am sure I violated at least one or two good design practices.
So if anyone could see the gerber files and give me a few tips it would be geatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
nuclear213
Edit:
Thanks for the videos Dave

There were a great help and inspiration to me. I have been watching them since I was 14 years old. Keep up the good work
