<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Paul Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@taniwha.com" target="_blank">paul@taniwha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:55:54 Bill Cox wrote:<br>
> It's very low-speed, but I think secure. I'm sure anyone with any<br>
> experience could tell me the 100 things I got wrong on this tiny design. I<br>
> welcome such feedback.<br>
<br>
</span>so some minor suggestions:<br>
<br>
- the circuit board etch USB pug idea is cheap and cool - but it's is<br>
terribly unreliable (everyone with one of my programmers that use this rightly<br>
complains) - I've switched to proper plugs (SMT plus 2 thru holes) - for what<br>
you're doing you need to tape your board out in 2mm thick board (2.2-2.4 if<br>
you can) with ENIG plating, and even then you'll usually need a bit of masking<br>
tape on the back of the connector to stop it falling out of some sockets<br>
<br>
- I prefer to lay down ground planes on both sides and have Eagle take care of<br>
them- in Eagle create a polygon on each side then name it 'gnd' the click the<br>
flow (ratsnest) button - personally for my RNG there are NO traces on the<br>
bottom under the analog portion, it's all shield - drop vias where possible to<br>
stitch the two planes, and drop vias next to ground pins on ICs<br>
<br>
(your analog world may require more of an audio approach to grounding - you<br>
can create split ground planes pretty easily using this technique)<br>
<br>
- you can likely get away with much much smaller vias (check the eagle layout<br>
file you got from your board house - I typically use .35mm) - ideally you want<br>
them small enough that they get tented with solder mask<br>
<br>
- looks you probably don't have the layers on that handle component<br>
restriction layers - that's OK for something you're planning on assembling by<br>
hand - a P&P machine might run into trouble (just a guess from eyeballing it)<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for the tips. I made the changes you suggested, except the component restriction layer. Is that just the tDocu layer were we draw the outline of the parts?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks,<br>Bill<br></div></div>