Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Landless Vias

You may be surprised to know that HP Test equipment has used landless vias (no annular rings) for several years.

HP’s studies show the landless vias can be more reliable than vias with pads.

Benefits include higher routing density (more traces per layer) which may reduce the total number of layers required in the PCB stackup.

Every layer pair in the stackup is approximately a 20% cost adder.

The trick is to find the fabricator that knows the process for plating via barrels with no annular rings.  

























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