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Hardware Design
Fundamentals

Industry Edition

Your circuit worked in the lab. Then you deployed it in the field — and everything changed. This isn't a course that explains theory. It's the depth of understanding we wished we had the first time we faced a deployment failure at 2 AM.

Earthing · EMI · Power Quality · Protection · Signal Integrity · Standards
From physics to IEC compliance — in real deployment environments.

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10
Modules
54
Quiz Questions
8
Threat Domains
Free
Module 0
No videos — pure applied learning
365-day self-paced access
Built by a practicing hardware engineer
Live sessions available
Why This Course Exists
The lab and the field
are different worlds
Most hardware courses end when the simulation passes or the prototype boots. Real deployment starts where those courses stop.
In the Lab
"The circuit works perfectly on my bench."
  • Clean, stable 5V bench supply
  • 0.5m cables, no interference
  • Single equipment, shared earth
  • 25°C, no vibration, controlled humidity
  • No adjacent motor drives or VFDs
  • No lightning, no load dump events
In the Field
"It fails intermittently and we can't reproduce it."
  • Mains supply carrying VFD harmonics
  • 300m cable sharing a tray with motor power cables
  • 15V ground potential difference between equipment earths
  • Contactor switching generating EFT at 1–4 kV
  • Lightning-induced surges on outdoor cable runs
  • 25% voltage sags every time the compressor starts

This course teaches you the physics that explains every one of those field failures — and the engineering decisions that prevent them. Every module connects a real threat, the physics behind it, the standard that defines it, and the circuit-level response that survives it.

Curriculum
10 Modules — start free
Module 0 is free with no login. Modules 1–9 require enrollment. Each module has: real-world cases, physics primer, standards context, field notes, design checklist, common mistakes, calculations workshop, and a scenario-based quiz.
M0
FREE PREVIEW
How the Real World Attacks Electronics
Four deployment failures across medical, mining, aviation, and automotive. Introduces all eight threat domains before any physics.
M1
Earthing vs Grounding — Safety, Faults & Reference Potentials
PE, signal ground, chassis ground, TN/TT/IT systems, IEC 60601-1 leakage limits, MOPP isolation. Why 10 µA kills.
M2
Equipotential Bonding & Ground Loops in Real Installations
Ground potential rise, CMRR, ground loop physics, isolation strategies. Industrial, medical, and data centre bonding.
M3
What EMI Does to Systems and Why Standards Exist
Documented EMI-caused harm from pacemaker interference to avionics failures. The source-path-victim model. Why the standards exist.
M4
EMI Sources, Coupling Paths & Compliance Testing
dI/dt and dV/dt, switching spectrum, differential vs common mode, LISN operation, pre-compliance test sequence.
M5
The Compliance Standards Landscape
IEC 61000, CISPR 32, FCC Part 15, CE marking process, DO-160, ISO 7637, MIL-STD-461 — read as engineering inputs.
M6
Power Quality in Real Environments
Surges, sags, interruptions, harmonics, automotive 12V drive cycle, DO-160 Section 16. The distribution network as a threat medium.
M7
Protecting Electronics from the Power Environment
MOV, TVS, GDT, PTC — device physics and coordination. Isolation transformers. Hold-up capacitors. Supercapacitors. UPS topology.
M8
Signal Integrity in Harsh Environments
Long cable physics, differential signalling, RS-485, CAN, ARINC 429, cable screen grounding strategy, EFT on signal ports.
M9
Capstone — Product-Level Design Review
An industrial IoT gateway in a 400V switchgear room. All eight threat domains active simultaneously. 20 design decisions traced to physics.
What You Learn
Engineering decisions,
not just rules to follow
After this course you can derive the correct decision — not just recall a guideline.
⚡
Read any compliance standard as an engineering input
Extract immunity test levels as design requirements — filter bandwidth, isolation voltage, ESD clamp rating — before schematic work begins.
🔬
Trace any field failure to its root cause
Follow the source → coupling path → victim chain across all eight threat domains, regardless of which is responsible.
🧮
Calculate whether protection is necessary
MOV energy, TVS clamping current, hold-up time, CMRR adequacy, fault loop impedance — quantified, not guessed.
🛡️
Select the right protocol for the environment
Understand why RS-485 works at 300m in a factory and RS-232 does not — and what happens when the GPD exceeds the CM range.
📋
Navigate the CE marking process
Know which directives apply, which standards are harmonised, what goes in the technical file, and what self-declaration actually means legally.
🎯
Design for simultaneous multi-domain threats
Real installations expose equipment to all eight threats at once. The capstone applies every module to one product in one of the worst possible environments.
Who Is This For
If your electronics ever leave the lab
This is not a beginner electronics course. It is the course that comes after you know how to design a PCB — and before you deploy one in a real environment.
⚙️
Hardware / PCB Engineers
You can design a board. Now learn why it might fail in the factory, hospital, vehicle, or aircraft it's meant for — and how to prevent it.
🎓
Final-Year & Fresh Engineers
College never covered earthing systems, IEC standards, or why EMI causes field failures. This is what the job actually requires.
🔌
Embedded / Firmware Engineers
Your code is correct. But the hardware around it is being attacked. Understanding the electrical environment makes you a complete engineer.
📐
Anyone Targeting IEC / CE Compliance
Stop treating compliance as a post-design test. Read standards as design inputs and build products that pass the first time.
Pricing
Simple, one-time pricing
365-day access from the day you purchase. No subscription. No hidden fees. Try Module 0 free — no card needed.
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Self-Paced
HDF — Self-Paced
₹2,999
one-time · 365 days access · founding price
  • All 10 modules (M0–M9)
  • 54 scenario-based quiz questions
  • All calculations worksheets
  • Design checklists for all 9 threat domains
  • Capstone design review
  • 365-day self-paced access
With Live Sessions
HDF — Live Cohort
₹5,999
one-time · 365 days access · founding price
  • Everything in Self-Paced
  • Weekly live sessions with Abhishek
  • Real-world case discussions
  • Q&A on your specific design problems
  • Priority support via WhatsApp
  • Certificate of completion
For teams & companies

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Onboarding fresh hardware graduates, upskilling deployment-engineering teams, or running an in-company programme on EMI/grounding/compliance? Get team-seat pricing, GST invoicing on PO, and customisable focus areas for your product context.

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The Team
Developed by
Industry Veterans
30+ years of combined hardware leadership across tier-1 automotive, industrial, and aerospace sectors. Every module in this curriculum has been reviewed against what the industry actually demands — not what looks good on a syllabus.
"

Good hardware engineering isn't about which tool you use. It's about why you make the decisions you make. VyomEx EDU teaches the why.

— Vijay Baraiya  ·  Industry Mentor  ·  21 Years in Hardware Engineering
Abhishek Garg
Abhishek Garg
Lead Instructor & Founder
VyomEx · FPGA IP Core Designer · SI/PI Simulation Trainer

Every module in this course is built from real problems I have encountered in professional hardware development — equipment that failed in deployment, investigations I have run, and designs I have had to fix after the fact. The HDF Industry Edition is the course I wish had existed when I was debugging my first field failure at 2 AM and had no idea whether the problem was in the earthing, the EMC, or the power supply. The physics was all there — nobody had just explained what was actually happening.

FPGA IP Core Design SI/PI Simulation EMI/EMC Design Hardware Bring-Up
VB
Vijay Baraiya
Industry Mentor
Principal Industry Mentor · Hardware Architecture & Global Compliance · 21 Years

Vijay brings over two decades of hands-on hardware engineering experience to VyomEx EDU. With a career spanning design, development, and deployment across the electronics industry, he has seen firsthand what separates good engineers from great ones.

His association with VyomEx EDU reflects a shared belief: that great hardware engineers are built on strong fundamentals, not just tool familiarity. He actively contributes to curriculum validation, live sessions, and industry connect initiatives — ensuring that what students learn here is directly relevant to what the industry expects.

PCB Design Embedded Systems SI / PI EMI / EMC Hardware Design
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