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How to make traces on an universal PCB?

I hope this question won't be closed as too subjective. I'd like to know best practice - how to make traces on universal PCB's with individual holes without traces (like the following image). My idea ...
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SDRAM on opposite side of board with respect to uC

Just a quick question. Is it advised against to place a high speed memory device on the opposite side of the PCB with respect to the microcontroller? And if it is ill advised, how is it possible to ...
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Trace width to 0805 pad?

How worried should I be if I route wider than 10 mil trace to 0805 pad? Would 16, 20 or 24 mil trace cause soldering problems without making 10 mil neck?
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Satisfactory Margin for Traces from PCB Edge

I've had problems routing too close to the edge of a PCB before and was wondering if there's a suitable rule-of-thumb that I should use (maybe to put in a design rule in Altium somehow with my ...
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Repairing broken trace on commercial board

A friend has a USB flash drive on which the SMD USB connector broke off. When it broke, it pulled the pad traces off the board with the solder. We are trying to think of a way to reconnect the ...
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How to measure propagation velocity through a trace on a pcb?

With a pcb in hand, how to measure the propagation velocity of a path from point A to point B, with accuracy in the picoseconds range?
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Unoccupied SMD and TH pads and noise/interference/capacitance

Imagine a rather noise sensetive application, My question is if there are unoccopied pads for SMD and through-hole are existing on the board and somehow connected to other components through theire ...
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Eagle Schematic and Board layout design for simple opamp module questions

Hopefully I'm not doing anything illegal, I posted a very similar question a few days ago, but this one is different. Here is what I've been working on the past couple days, trying out different ...