How to Create a Printed Circuit Board (PCB)(Section 6)

6. Lessons Learned and Recommendations

    While working on the optosensor project, I learned some things that others might find useful. These are summarized below.

    1. It is important to route all possible traces on the bottom of the board. This allows components to sit tight on the surface of the PCB.

    2. The larger you can make the copper padstack on top and bottom, the better, as this allows easy soldering. A size of 95 for a drill hole of 40 works well.

    3. All PCB repairs such as soldering should be done by an ECE Shop staff member.

    4. Finally, I learned that producing PCB's isn't all that hard, except for the little things that hold you up. For that reason, I recommend that users provide feedback and continue to improve this document by adding those little things that I haven't mentioned here.

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Section

1. Overview

2. Prototyping

3. Schematic Capture

4. Physical Layout

5. Physical Creation of PCB

6. Lessons Learned and Recommendations

7. Appendix