Re: Circuit board construction for the ATMer...?

[Joe Mayenschein <mayen1@mwt.net>]

AHHH the old Tape and donuts!!  I remember them well

Joe

Bob May wrote:

> Congratulations on learning how to do multilayer boards!
> Next you will be expanding out to do boards for others and that's when
> you're going to be getting into real trouble.
> I've been working in the engineering area of electonics on the bleeding edge
> of technology at times and the production of PCBs is always a big problem
> for small companies.  I started out when the boards were laid out by hand on
> clear acetate and now have several board layout programs for doing that job.
> The messing around with the chemicals and boards themselves is something
> that I have always left to the board houses (in my area, they are all over -
> practically in every shopping center) to do.  I've gotten 2 day turnaround
> at the best but for a real price increase.  Doing the manufacture of the
> boards inhouse is something that any decent sized company seems to always
> end up doing and it seems that your company has decided to go that way.
> What you need to do now is to put together a website of your experiences in
> making the shop and let everybody else find out how it's done.
> I, at the present, consider that a 4 layer board to be the minimum number of
> layers on a board in order to control the power source resistance and
> inductance.  Then again, I rarely deal with stuff that is less than 1MHz in
> speed and/or low level analog signals.
> Bob May
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