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DFX

Design For Excellence

DFX1

Design for Producibility and Reliability

It involves all the disciplines needed to manufacture and maintain an electronic product

DFX

IPC 2581

Heart of the electronics industry product realization

Design

It is where the reality of that product vision begins to takes shape

Design Phase

4 Design Requirements

Performance


Cost


Reliability


DFX

DFM

Design for Manufacturing

DFA

Design for Assembly

DFT

Design for Test

DFR


Design for Reliability

DFE

Design for the Environment

3 IPC Structures

Performance Classes


Producibility Levels


Board Types

Class where major requirement is funcrionality

Class 1

Environment may necessitate different:

Materials


Tolerance


Final Product Configuration

Established to help communicate the design complexity of wthe manufacturers

Producibility Levels

A printed board can have _________________ for different dedign features

Different producibility levels

Types of Rigid Boards

1 Single-Sided PCB


2 Double-Sided PCB


3 Multilayer Board without Blind or Buried Vias


4 Multilayer Board with Blind or Buried Vias


5 Multilayer Metal-Core Board without Blind Buried Vias


6 Multilayer Metal-Core Board with Blind Buried vias

They are important for proper circuit functioning and to assure all the physical requirements of the assembly are met

Component Locations

An efficient placement facilitates a ________________________ and assures the design will meet

quality routing of signal conductors

Acts as the hub of board design

PCB Designer

Lialison between all groups, balancing demands so all requirements are met

Printed Voard Designer

Components are usually placed in

Rows and Colums

Space between the components placement

Routing Channels

Support efficient fanout via

Rows and columns of components with adequate space between

Allows connections from surface lands to internal circuitry on a predictable and testable grid

Fanout vias

Permits the designer to move components to different locations to improve interconnection pathways, plan the shortest connection paths, show component lands that have not been connected and signal flow.

Rat's Nest View

Required for unused logic pins

Pull-up or pull-down resistors

Composed of components that can provide state information 1 or 0 as a function of the overall circuit

Digital Circuits

Characterized by high pin count components that produce many signals

Digital Designs

Routing of return circuitry is considered first and the signal routing second

Digital Designs

Usually made up of discrete devices, and provide the waveform characteristics necessary to describe a circuit

Analog Circuits

Characterized by low-pin count compinents with just a few signals per components

Analog Designs

Component locations must be compatible with any defined

Height restrictions

Flow of electricity ina an electronic system

Current

Maximum Current that can be carried continuously by a conductor without degradation of the product

Current Carrying Capacity

Property of conductors that resist the flow of electrons

Resistance

Has a very low resistance to current flow

Copper

Ideal conductive materials

Low resistance to electricity

Useful in determining heat rise of conductors that are required to carry heavy currents

Ohm's Law

By-product of power or work

Heat

Conversion of energy from one form to another

Power

Formula of power

When current flows through a wire or trace, it generates

Electeic field and magnetic field

Magnetic field lines around a long wire which carries an electeic current form_____

Concentric circles around the wire

Unwanted radiated electro-magnetic energy that couples into electrical conductors

EMI

The use of ____________ can also reduce electeo-magnetic interference upon devices, circuits or portions of circuits

Return or voltage planes as shields

Act as shields to prevent crosstalk between traces in the z-axis

Plane Layers

External plane layers can

Protect from stray EMI


Minimize EMI Emissions

Copper Clad Laminated are made up of

Resin System


Reinforcement


Copper foil

Sheets of reinforcement coated with resin

Prepreg or B stage

Fully cured material

Core

Partially cured material

Pre-preg

Most popular reinforcement

Woven Glass

Provides structural strength and can be organic or inorganic

Reinforcement

Most popular resin system

Epoxy

Natural or synthetic resinous material

Resin System

Lead Free soldering means

Higher Temperature diring processing

Drives the need for higher temperature laminate

Lead free soldering

Added to epoxy resin in order to make it more stable

Additional properties as fillers

Dielectric or insulated metal sheet

Base material

Base material can be

Rigid


Flexible


Rigid Flex

Most common thickness of laminate cores of rigid base for multi layers

4, 8, 5, 10

Minimum thickness of rigid base material for multi-layer boards

2 mils

Most common type of copper on rigid printed boards

Electrodeposited ED

Wrought

Rolled Annealed

Used for flex circuits because of its superior ductility

Rolled Annealed

Shape of etched traces are

Trapezoidal

Copper lost during etch

1/2 mil per side per ounce if copper

The mechanical mechanism that holds the copper to the base material

Resin

Happens when there's insufficient resin to provide dielectric integrity and stress relief

Glass Crush

More expensove than foil construction

Core construction

Construction often used for boards needing to meet tightly controlled impedance requirements

Core construction

Construction for most rigid boards and preferred by vendors

Foil construction

It is common practice for fabricators to compensate the original electronic data when they create their production floor film to account for their process variations

FYI 😊

Core material __________ during etch processes depending on how much total copper is removed

Shrinks

It forces the fabricator to make major adjustments to your film

Unbalanced copper distribution on layers

The board stackup should mirror around _________ in the z axis to prevent ____________

Centerline, warpage

Manifests as Bow and Twist

Warpage

Undesirable deviations from a printed board's flatness

Bow and twist

All four corners are in same plane

Bow

Only three corners are in same plane

Twist

Maximum vertical displacement for bow and twist diagonal length for SMT

0.75%

Maximum vertical displacement for bow and twist diagonal length for SMT

1.5%

Interfacial connections

Plated Thru Holes

Plated holes are drilled ________ larger than the finished hole size for plating requirements

2 to 4 mils

Processes that prepare the hole wall for electroless copper deposition

Desmear and Etchback

Removes only resin smeared over the exposed ends of conductors due to drill heat

Desmear

Remive sopper burrs after drilling

Deburring

Controlled removal of nonmetallic materials from the hole walls

Etchback

Removes resin smear, exposes internal condyctor surfaces for plating

Etchback

Used on pcb for component thru holes and vias fully circumscribe the hole

Lands

Minimun desired amount of copper material left around the hole after processing

Annular ring requirement

Considers production tooling tolerances and process variations in order to meet the requirements of a fabricated board

Fabrication Allowance

Drill sizes come in increments of

2 mils

Three different methodology for hole locations

Bilateral Tolerance Zone


Positional Tolerance Zone


Bonus Tolerance Zone

Holes are at the smallest


Pins are at maximum

MMC

Holes at maximum size


Pins at smallest size

LMC

Holes in boards are produces using

Mechanical drilling or laser drilling

Holes mostly with CEM

Punching

If a desired drill size falls between readily available standard drill bit size

Round up to a larger size

# of drill size per board as sweet spot

10 drill sizes

Bilateral tolerances for finished hole Level A

0.0079"

Bilateral tolerances for finished hole Level B

0.006

Bilateral tolerances for finished hole Level C

0.004

Used as starting base for all rigid pcb

Copper clad laminate

Metal clad material with copper as the conductive material

Copper clad laminate

Etch Factor

V/X

Occurs when the plating thickness exceeds the resist thickness

Outgrowth

Also used as a method to remove heat from the components

Copper

To accomodate variations in registration of the different conductive layers or hole locations

Manufacturing allowance

A land on a specific layer that has no connection on that layer

Non functional pad

For layers greater than ________, it is recommended to remove non functional pad

10 layers

Large conductive areas ______ or larger covered with _____ increases the blistering warping or heat shielding during wave or reflow

118 mils, solder mask

Large areas more than ______ diameter may be broken up into a ______

1.00", crosshatched