Hi, my name is Aljaz Titoric and I'm a hardware engineer

I devoted my childhood to disassembling of electronic devices and playing with their components. In secondary school, I familiarized myself with the technology of designing and etching PCBs, spent my teenage years with a soldering iron and developed a student website Elektronika-start [in slovene] where I published many hobby projects in hopes to help young aspiring engineers. I studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. In Slovenia I worked as a HW design engineer in several different companies. Currently I’m working for a high tech company ASML from Nederlands – semiconductor industry. My job is hardware design of the high voltage power supplies which are used for driving AC motors inside the photolithography machines. In recent years I have specialized in the design of printed circuit boards with Cadence OrCAD and Altium Designer and I use SolidWorks for enclosure designing. In the coming years I aspire to continue working in tech, both professionally and as a hobby.

Currently, I am located in Eindhoven, Nederlands.

I have worked on a bigger input/output board on which we can connect peripherals such as: linear actuators, key switches, LED diodes, buttons, DC motors, RGB LED strips, etc.. The connections between the board and peripherals is done via 72pin CardEdge connector. The circuit board is based on the NXP LPC11E67JBD100 Cortex M0+ uC and contains a few different communications: UART, MDB, I2C, SPI, USB, 1-wire, ccTalk etc.. My tasks included schematic and layout design, selection of components and drawing the symbols and footprints. The single sided 4 layer PCB contains over 400 SMD and THT components.

​iSYSTEM Labs is developing a new family of products called Active probes. Their purpose is debugging and tracing the code in the microcontrollers. My assigment was the design of the black anodized aluminum enclosure, that has the cooling function for the device. Alongside the enclosure design I was also in charge of designing the mulilayer PCBs (8-10 lay) with 400-550 components. The heart of the circuit is the Xilinx’s FPGA with 676 pins in BGA package. The PCB contain high integration of components with high speed differential pairs.

Both schematic and printed circuit board for electronic dental testing unit model DTU-1000 were designed from scratch. The device makes it easier to test and repair the dental handpiece and its micro motors. The 4lay circuit contains switching, linear and DC/DC isolated power supplies. Its core is a 32 bit Cortex M4 MCU from Microchip. The circuit board controlles 9 relays on which the electromagnetic valves for air and water are attached. My tasks included the schematic and layout design, the selection of components, drawing of libraries, assembling and testing the boards and ordering the material.

In cooperation with the company Torqbyte we have created a couple of different custom PCB layouts 2-4lay that are going to be used for prototyping and testing purposes. The printed circuit boards are designed to be manually or mechanically assembled.

I am an organizer of the Ljubljana Hardware Meetup Group. The group was formed in hopes to spread the knowledge among Slovenian electrical engineers, software developers and other tech enthusiasts. The events are held on a monthly basis in Ljubljana. On our first Meetup event, I spoke about designing the multilayer PCB, defining the board’s stackup, signal & power integrity and power delivery networks.

In partnership with Altium Designer we prepared a technical article related with electronics and hardware design with name “Closing the gap between Electronics (ECAD) and Mechanics”.