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Chester Gillon
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They looks to be Thermal Relief pads to aid in manufacturability.

From some searches:

  1. Thermal Relief Design Guide for Your PCB for Altium
  2. PCB Thermal Relief Guidelines for Effective Layouts for Cadance

Relevant part from the Altium article:

A thermal relief pad provides a way to keep heat confined to a pad for mounting a component to a printed circuit board with solder. The pad for a component normally peaks through the solder mask, allowing solder to be placed on the pad during assembly. Some copper is removed from the edge of a thermal relief pad, allowing heat to be confined in the pad when applying solder during assembly.

Edit: In response to the comment, I have no direct experience of calculating the effect of Thermal Relief pads on the current carrying capability of the component or increase parasitic inductance, but found the following:

  1. Thermal Relief Via Design for Proper Impedance from Altium
  2. Does adding thermal relief on PCB increase electrical resistance? answer on stackexchange

They looks to be Thermal Relief pads to aid in manufacturability.

From some searches:

  1. Thermal Relief Design Guide for Your PCB for Altium
  2. PCB Thermal Relief Guidelines for Effective Layouts for Cadance

Relevant part from the Altium article:

A thermal relief pad provides a way to keep heat confined to a pad for mounting a component to a printed circuit board with solder. The pad for a component normally peaks through the solder mask, allowing solder to be placed on the pad during assembly. Some copper is removed from the edge of a thermal relief pad, allowing heat to be confined in the pad when applying solder during assembly.

They looks to be Thermal Relief pads to aid in manufacturability.

From some searches:

  1. Thermal Relief Design Guide for Your PCB for Altium
  2. PCB Thermal Relief Guidelines for Effective Layouts for Cadance

Relevant part from the Altium article:

A thermal relief pad provides a way to keep heat confined to a pad for mounting a component to a printed circuit board with solder. The pad for a component normally peaks through the solder mask, allowing solder to be placed on the pad during assembly. Some copper is removed from the edge of a thermal relief pad, allowing heat to be confined in the pad when applying solder during assembly.

Edit: In response to the comment, I have no direct experience of calculating the effect of Thermal Relief pads on the current carrying capability of the component or increase parasitic inductance, but found the following:

  1. Thermal Relief Via Design for Proper Impedance from Altium
  2. Does adding thermal relief on PCB increase electrical resistance? answer on stackexchange
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Chester Gillon
  • 7.2k
  • 1
  • 14
  • 29

They looks to be Thermal Relief pads to aid in manufacturability.

From some searches:

  1. Thermal Relief Design Guide for Your PCB for Altium
  2. PCB Thermal Relief Guidelines for Effective Layouts for Cadance

Relevant part from the Altium article:

A thermal relief pad provides a way to keep heat confined to a pad for mounting a component to a printed circuit board with solder. The pad for a component normally peaks through the solder mask, allowing solder to be placed on the pad during assembly. Some copper is removed from the edge of a thermal relief pad, allowing heat to be confined in the pad when applying solder during assembly.