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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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Routing on Nine Grid Thermal Pad

Updated Answer - Based on Link In Comments Right, so The image you posted of a nine-grid EPAD and the link you posted in the comments are completely different. One is a QFN package, and the other is a …
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Eagle routing issue

Your polygon settings are wrong. You have currently set the "Isolate" parameter to 0, which means that the polygon should have 0 clearance between it any everything else (i.e. it will just short ever …
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Is Ground in a circuit nothing more than a return path?

Ground, or more specifically "ground potential" is simply a reference node within your circuit. Voltages are not absolute things, but rather a difference in potential between two nodes in a circuit. …
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FPGA pin assignment for BGA fanout

Fourth step, pick any order in your grouping and start routing from the various devices towards the FPGA, preferably doing the most important ones first. …
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EAGLE: Just Routing and Drilling

There is an import-dxf ULP on Github which will allow you to import the DXF file into Eagle as copper. You can then export Gerber files and Excellon drill files. But it may require additional work a …
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Shortcut to change layer/add via whilst routing in Eagle

If you are currently in the process of routing a trace, Eagle will switch to the new layer at the last point that you clicked and add a via at that location. … Now when routing the trace with the route tool, simply press the keyboard shortcut you created and the trace will jump to that layer. …
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Does this PCIe routing look ok?

Also, in your routing, the spacing seems to keep changing along the length of the traces which will not maintain constant impedance, you must route the traces with the spacing maintained constant along … If you make that swap, your clock routing becomes much simpler as you no longer need to cross over. Next a little rearranging of your PCIe Tx/Rx lanes allows for a much cleaner routing. …
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4-Layer Stackup PCB design

to use for power and signal routing as required. … You might discover that if you rotate a chip or reorganise some of the blocks that the routing begins to untangle. …
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How to connect these pads

This is how I ended up routing it in order to get away from the issue of trace thickness. …
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