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Questions about the routing of printed circuit boards (PCBs) which involves the placement of tracks on the board. It may be performed manually, but many PCB CAD programs provide an autorouter to assist in the process.
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Purpose of "wave shaped" PCB traces
It shows part of a PCIe card with SATA routing and DDR2 RAM:
I highlighted 4 areas that qualify as unusual trace layout (from my perspective).
What are those shapes supposed to achieve? … Another example of wave shaped, antenna like routing.
This is fairly rare. But obviously the designer deliberately avoided 45° traces. Why?
Curves again and a single "pulse" within the trace. …