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A whole day of work for a college project resulted in this. My most complex PCB layout so far. (A voltage regulator) 18
A whole day of work for a college project resulted in this. My most complex PCB layout so far. (A voltage regulator)
The top right looks discontinuous
I miss these days. I’m in the midst of a 6 layer video controller board with ram and bga’s and like 6 different types of controlled impedance, been working on it for about 4 months. Looks good but add shapes to those big capacitors, traces arent good for power components.
some of the traces need a bit of tidying up and you could get all those traces on one side of the board – go on son, accept the one-side challenge!
What software is this? The bends in the traces look like they are not properly connecting to each other, and the PCB you get may look the same way.
And yes, I know, it’s an imperfect circuit. The deadline to get this done was tonight at midnight local time (1 hour and 20 minutes ago).
Thanks for your suggestions. I hope I’ll get to make PCB layouts better than this one.
Those thin traces to the electrolytic capacitors aren’t going to do it.
As someone said, filled polygons for every Power carrying component. And when you are done, I would fill both layers with ground planes
avoid acute angles
Congrats! It’s a great feeling making a PCB of any level of complexity (even better when it works). Sure people on this sub will give you advice and constructive criticism, but be proud of what you did. I knew plenty of EEs in my college that literally never made a PCB (I feel like it should be required). Your PCB design and intuition will only get better with experience, but I think the first few you make are still something you should be proud of no matter the complexity.
What’s with the slits at the bends and corners of the traces?
Congrats. There are many things you will want to fix which you will learn with time.
I do have one key question, though — where are you hooking up the power input, ground, and power output?
Circuit?
If put some vias in the large pads. Just make sure they have the soldermask opened on the bottom. This will aid in removing heat.
I can’t imagine woow
A PCB comes with a full layer of copper on each layer, for power parts try to use as much of that copper as you can. Dont delete it only to have this thin traces.
Try polygons or fatter traces at least.
Is this a rendering artifact or are there actually gaps in the corners where your traces bend?
Cute, I often wish the designs would be that simple and easy nowadays haha. But without having challenging designs it would get boring at some point I assume. ;D
I also started with my first PCBs when I was around 14 so keep the work going 👍🏻
Mounting holes.