Questions tagged [routing]
Questions relating to the routing of printed circuit boards (PCBs) which involves the placement of tracks on the board. It may be performed manually however many PCB CAD programs provide an autorouter to assist in the process.
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Latency in router [closed]
Suppose 2 data packets arrive at the same time in a router and they havent been sent any data packets until that time.If we make the router table , we can choose whichever data packetb we want to have ...
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Altium designer routing blocked by old board shape
I am trying to re-route my board, so I changed the board size using the "board planning mode".
Now, I'm routing, and some tracks are "blocked" by something looking very much like ...
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Plane layer thermal relief rotation with Altium?
It is straightforward to configure horizontal/vertical thermal relief connections with polygons, but with Plane layers, it seems the option isn't available. The result is not very professional (see ...
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What is the best way to route a SPI Bus with multiple loads?
What is the best way to route a SPI bus with four loads?
One bus with multiple drops.
A star pattern with equal length branches to each peripheral.
Or other configuration.
All 4 peripherals and ...
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Convention or IC for dynamically switching multiple paths on a PCB?
I'm trying to create programmable circuit paths (controlled via mcu), where my program can arbitrarily connect N pins on one side of the circuit/pcb to N pins on the other side. Ideally, this would ...
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TB9051FTG Model Restrict DRC Error
So I picked up this model for TB9051FTG from UltraLibrarian via DigiKey, https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/toshiba-semiconductor-and-storage/TB9051FTG-EL/10123940
I am looking to route the ...
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How to show only specific net in Diptrace?
How to show only specific net in Diptrace?
Let's say i have a big board and i want to trace all the power traces first, i'd like to hide all other nets ratlines so it's easier to see just the power ...
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Best practice for a single digital (SPI) line routed to multiple devices
I am routing a SPI line to multiple follower devices.
Currently I have a split in the trace like this:
but it seems like this might not work well.
Are there any best practices for routing to multiple ...
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Serial TX and RX requirements
I am building a custom ESP32 PCB.
What do I need to take into account to route the serial tracks (Rx Tx)?
Are they differential pairs?
Can they be routed under an SMD resistor?
Is 0.250mm (9.8 mil) ...
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How is rip up and reroute performed exactly?
I've been teaching myself about VLSI algorithms a bit more and trying to get up to a basic level of knowledge. The basics of maze routing including path finding, multi-destination net routing, multi-...
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Can I leave a throughole pad off one side of a machine-fabricated PCB?
So I'm designing a two-layer PCB and I'm very inexperienced. A third-party company will fabricate them.
Now, I have a PTH part with a number of closely spaced pins (and there is no SMD equivalent of ...
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Power planes for a Spartan 3e FPGA
I am designing a board with a Spartan 3E. I have chosen linear voltage regulators for powering the FPGA which should be well suited for this chip.
I am now routing the board and I am wondering if ...
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Routing a PCB with no Netlist in Altium
I want to route some tracks directly in the PCB file in Altium, So there is still no Netlist available.
So what rule/rules should I change to route pads directly, without applying the clearance rule ...
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Noise in pulse shaper with wide bandwith (MPPC signal)
I am using an MPPC with voltage amplification with the circuit shown below. The circuit is a pulse shaper to count photons, it counts with 4 amplifying stages (OPA 2846) and a comparator (LT1719) at ...
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Why is ground meaningless in high speed circuits whereas more important is the path of return current?
I know everything about this topic but I don't know why ground is meaningless in high speed circuits. So basically in high speed circuits these are the factors we need to consider-:
Decoupling caps
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Checkered Pattern on Altium Traces
I'm seeing a checkered pattern on a couple traces in Altium
I'm curious as to what it might be, how to remove it, and if it might be the reason I can't save. This is the error I'm getting when I try ...
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USB-C Best Practices for routing both pairs of D+/D- signals?
Given a fairly common smd style usb type C receptacle connector, such as the following:
TYPE-C-31-M-12
Two pairs of D+/D- signals are provided, due to the double sided nature of the type c connector. ...
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Green circle around via in Altium
I am a newbie in Altium (have some experience with KiCAD) while placing via I am getting a green circle around via, should I be concerned about this if not how to turn this off.
Thanks in advance
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Doubt about 50 ohm impedance calculation
I am developing a 4-layer FR-4 board containing a GNSS receiver (L1 + L2). RF tracks must have an impedance of 50 ohms. The board contains two inner layers of GND and a ground plane around the RF ...
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Why does Altium's autoroute short circuit polygons
Novice here. I would like autoroute to handle routing all my connections, but it seems to violate the polygons that I have placed before routing.
I can't seem to find any rules that may/may not cause ...
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Routing ethernet differential pairs over ground plane
I am routing a flexible PCB which connects a panel-mount ethernet connector (without integrated magnetics) to a rigid PCB which contains the ethernet magnetics. I plan to route the differential pairs ...
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Texas Instrument SPDT TS5A22362DGSR not swtiching properly
I have bought a couple TS5A22362DGSR from TI and it's not switching properly, I'm trying to switch between a record player and a laptop. As shown above, I want the signal from a record player, after a ...
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How to route SP3423?
maybe is a very simply question but I would like to know how I should route this component. This component is a ESD Protection for USB, and I should route as symetrical as I could, but with this ...
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Should routing traces be wider than top layer soldering pad?
In one of my PCB design, the microprocessor soldering leg pad size are .254mm x 1.4mm while the ground(GND) routing trace is .4mm thick. I'm trying to figure out is it safe to route the .4mm thick ...
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Can I change rectangular pads on every pin to rounded rectangular?
I am currently routing my board with FreeRouting and I noticed that rectangular and oval pads (on KiCad) make FreeRouting do 90° cuts which I simply don't like so I thought I could simply change ...
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Connection for micro USB connector
I would like to solder micro USB connectors on my PCB, only for power (no data). I did that connection, but when I soldered it and connected the cable I could not have any power. Is my connection is ...
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Power rails routing question
I am currently designing a pretty big 4-layer development board 350mm x 270mm. Keeping in mind I have multiple analog digital and AC mains voltage, what would the best practice be regarding routing my ...
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Creating Power Planes under USB lines
I have another question about PCB layout. I'm designing using this guide:
https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/sllu149e/sllu149e.pdf?ts=1618900105338&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F
I don't ...
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Raspberry Pi CM4 I/O board 2-layer PCB design
I am a beginner in PCB designing, well in past experience, designed an PCB with some sort of digital signals, power (AC/DC) lines and USB.
Now I am working to design the PCB for CM4 I/O board with ...
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LED Array Controller Circuit PCB Design Questions and Feedback
Background
I'm designing a LED controller based on a Teensy 4.1, some AD9833 Function Generators and some TLC5948 LED Drivers. I'm aiming to make an instrument of sorts, specifically a POV display ...
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Identifying decoupling capacitors in schematics and routing them properly to ICs
I am a chemistry student trying to replicate a 4-layer PCB design from a pre-designed schematic. This is my first PCB project.
The design:
The stack:
Signal/component top layer (jacks,pots,buttons)
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Routing on Nine Grid Thermal Pad
I have a component with a land pattern I haven't routed before. Usually thermal pads have the vias in them so the connectivity is obvious. However, in this case the vias are placed between the pads. ...
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Choosing the correct Ground or Power net for internal copper planes in a 4-layered design
I am a chemistry student trying to replicate a PCB circuit as part of an extra-curricular challenge. I am in over my head, but I am learning a lot and don't want to give up. I tried to route the ...
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Trace impedance for two signal layers between ground planes
When watching a few videos about stackup, EMI and impedance (especially this video from Fedevel Academy: https://youtu.be/52fxuRGifLU), I got confused how to compute trace impedance in the case of two ...
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Half-bridge gate driver fried, how can I make my design work?
I made a half-bridge following the recommended schematics from the IRS2184 datasheet.
However when I powered it, it triggered over-current and got quite hot.
Here is are schematic and routing.
I ...
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Help with SPI routing for a display
I’m designing my first PCB and got weird SPI issues after my second revision of the PCB layout. I did a few small changes for the SPI routing in the second revision but nothing that I thought would ...
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Signal routing to power amp LM1876 based on TS5A22362 SPDT
Has anyone ever used the TI's TS5A22362 CI to route audio? I though of implementing the circuit below on which I intend to use the same supply voltage to switch between normally closed and normally ...
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Altium 3D View not showing properly and Via placement problem
Can some please tell me how to fix this?
I select all 3D views but every time I get transparent board.
and when I try to place a via for routing it moves outside of the board.
need help.....
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Routing Guidelines for Analog Video (VGA, RGsB, PAL)
I am currently into the design of the analog video IN/OUT. Basically I have a 3U PCB on which the encoder/decoder ICs are present, that converts the digital video to the analog RGsB (RGsB OUT) and PAL ...
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4-Layer Stackup PCB design
I was designing a 2-Layer PCB and now I'm stuck. I have routed like 80% of all nets and now I'm no more sure if it makes sense to continue. It's getting pretty messed up with all the crossing routes ...
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Sharing lots of signals between micro-controllers
I have a board where a backup MCU is connected to all the same IOs as the main board. An error checking mechanism will select which MCU to power up. The other one will have all of it's IO ports in Hi-...
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PCB return path for Ethernet signals
While working on a new design, we had to route Ethernet signals on our PCB. My colleague and I has some discussion on how we should handle the grounding around the Ethernet signals, and their return ...
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Are specific impedances for high-speed signals maintained beyond the PCB connectors?
I found this article that describes the specific impedances that single/differential traces must have for high speed signals (using microstrips).
But what happens to these impedances beyond the ...
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Why do I get these odd foot prints from JLCPCB - 0602 and 1206
Why do I get these foot prints from JLCPCB?
The parts are regular 0602 and 1206 and capacitors.
I'm using KiCad 5.1.7. No external libraries. Everything is default.
My GerbView:
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How to decide the DDR3 routing topology?
I am designing board which has got 4 DDR3 Die on it, 64 bit SDRAM interface. DDR3 Memory controller will be xilinx FPGA. I have some confusion in the signal routing from the DDR3 interface to DDR3 ...
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PCB Design: When having a power plane, should I only be doing vias or also route?
Is it some times relevant to also make the routing between two nodes that are close to each other? Or is it always sufficient to just have vias?
The same question for something other than power, such ...
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Track width needed higher than pin size
I'm learning PCB design and more than once I faced this issue. What are the standard practices when the trace width is higher than the pin size? Suppose you are designing a 3A charger with a Micro-USB ...
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Huge analog switching matrix
My application is a PCB that has 2 different 100 pins connectors and has to be capable of arbitrarily connect each pin on the first connector to each pin of the second.
The signal going through the ...
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PCB Layout Optimization Regarding VCC and GND
I have two questions regarding routing power and ground.
With respect to power, is it generally better to flood copper planes and have one via per pin/pad connecting directly to the plane under, or ...
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How to batch update package delays in Altium Designer?
Altium Designer lets me specify a package pin length and a propagation
delay for each pad of a component. However, I don't know a way to do
this besides manually selecting each pad and typing in the ...
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