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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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Chip antenna, what to do with power and bottom planes

You should maintain the prescribed keepout zone on all layers1. You will need a ground copper pour for the matching network on the top layer near the antenna. It should be "stitched" with vias to th …
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How can I make a decent ground plane in Eagle?

A valid comment was made by Connor Wolf (original thread): Stay WAY away from auto-routing until you are familiar enough with PCBs to understand it's problems. … The thread contains a discussion about pros and cons of auto-routing. …
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Does a Ground plane in Eagle still need connections?

You've added ground plane (copper pour), and rat's nest connections from the pins to the copper pour disappeared. That's intended. That's how it should be. If you zoom-in on on of the pins that are …
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Anything bad to place a via on a pad?

The industry term for this is via in pad. It's not a problem when you hand-solder components. It can cause problems during automated SMT assembly. Solder, which was applied to the pad as a solder pas …
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Electrical service discharge path through body

If someone were to accidentally make contact with live service conductors, while touching another person, would I get shocked or would the current travel through me and into the other party without m …
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