Questions tagged [dfm]
Design For Manufacturing - Principles and techniques that are used to ensure that a product is more easily manufactured, has higher yield during manufacture and/or exhibits lower cost of manufacturing. May be accomplished through choice of components, extra circuits for testing through to mundane issues like space for fixturing and labeling amongst many other techniques.
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Is there a rule of thumb or an IPC standard for reducing (windowing) solder paste deposition on exposed pads?
I am creating a footprint for a 24-pin QFN package with exposed thermal pad. Sometimes manufacturers will provide solder paste mask guidelines in addition to metallization for the landing pattern, but ...
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What determines the choice of maximum material condition (MMC) versus least material condition (LMC) when designing a BGA footprint?
I am evaluating the IPC-compliant footprint wizard in Altium Designer. One of the steps is to determine the pad size relative to the nominal ball diameter:
Related to this topic, an answer provides a ...
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What is the purpose of these unusual IC footprint features?
I am working on creating a footprint for the MAX25254 buck regulator and am puzzled by several inconsistencies which are proving annoying:
Inconsistent pad sizes
Seemingly unnecessarily complicated ...
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Are my tracks too close?
I'm working on a digital circuit that I plan to run at ~1MHz. After finishing the PCB I looked back at my work and saw that my tracks are quite close.
For a size reference, the tracks are 0.254mm ...
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TQFP fanout for DFM / AOI
I've often heard a couple of "good practices" for TQFP/QFN ICs fanout:
Do not route corner pins at 90°, instead the track must come straight to the pin:
Do not short the signals directly ...
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Surface Treatment choice for edge connector
So I have an edge connector that according to Alibaba Chinese salesman has tin-plated terminals (datasheet a bit unclear).
I am making a product where I am inserting a PCB into an edge connector and I ...
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Does the PCB have to be thinner than through-hole pin length?
If I have a part that has pins that are 1.2mm long. Can I use a PCB that is 1.2mm thick or does it need to be even thinner than that?
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Best way to heat sink many resistors
I have a PCB design with a long row of 1206 power resistors. Although only a few of them will be active at a time, they can dissipate up to 1 watt each, so I would like to heat sink them. If they get ...
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Local fiducial placement
I'm working on a prototype that has a few fine pitch (0.5mm) components. I'm thinking about adding local fiducial marks for these components as an afterthought. My idea was to place them close to the ...
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Best practice for ICT test point locations
While I have found a few resources (here here here) describing the coverage (strive for 100 %!), distribution (avoid clustering, at least 100 mil apart, away from tall components), and size (40 mil if ...
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Understanding Transition faults
I learned that the transition faults model checks whether data transition meets the clock or not
Transition Faults : Assumes large delay defect concentrated at one
logical node, such that any ...
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How to automatically assemble lithium polymer battery?
I'm redesigning a product for automatic assembly (DFA / DFX). The current product includes a lithium polymer battery with solderable leads, very similar to this:
Right now the leads are hand-...
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How close can BGA packages be placed to each other? [closed]
I'm wondering if there is some rule of thumb about how close different BGA packages can be placed to each other. What limits that besides pick and place accuracy?
I'll ask a few board assembly ...
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SMD LED Orientation From Top
Is there a way to determine the orientation of the LED in the image below?
The blue squares in the corners seem like they are denoting the orientation however it's not marked in the datasheet.
This ...
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Do 0402 chip component need solder mask web between the pads?
In my board, all 0402 parts are using gang solder mask.
The pad to pad distance is 10 mils. Is there any risk of solder short?
Do I need to suggest applying solder mask web between the pads for all ...
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