EEVblog #127 - PCB Design For Manufacture Tutorial - Part 1

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Recommends NickHalden · 2012-09 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Satisfactory Margin for Traces from PCB Edge”

Dave Jones recommends 1mm pullback I believe in his video here: [this video] I'm sure the "ideal" value varies with boardhouse but that should be a good starting point. There's a ton of other good tips in that video and there's also a Part 2 if you're interested.

Recommends Anton Kedrov · 2013-01 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “PCB Prototyping and Fabrication”

Check out this: PCB Design For Manufacture - Part 1 [this video] PCB Design For Manufacture - Part 2 [LINK] I think that this is not the direct answer for your question, but there is outlined most important considerations you may want to think of prior to design PCB for manufacture.

Recommends Houen · 2014-09 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “How to go from newbie to manufactured?”

I am a newbie myself, so take this with grains of salt, but I have researched this a lot over the last month, and so I hope to bring a good newbie-needs perspective to it. Here's what I've found out: NOTE: I am using a couple of acronyms (PCB, SMD, etc.). I have not written what these mean on purpose, since you will definitely also need to know these concepts intimately. You need to go from prototype (Arduino?) to PCB version. First of all, see these two videos by EEVBlog: Video 1 [this video] , Video 2 [LINK] Going from prototype to PCB version means switching from through-hole components to SMT components, and from a full-fledged Arduino to a barebones chip solution. The good news is that you c

Recommends DerStrom8 · 2016-09 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “What are some circuit design rules of thumb for mass production?”

Dave Jones of the EEVblog actually did a few video blog segments on this exact topic: [this video] [LINK] [LINK] In each of those videos, Dave offers some very helpful pointers and insight into the DFM (Design for Manufacture) process. You may find them incredibly useful, as I have.

Recommends Jesus Castane · 2016-11 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Basics about pick & place PCB design”

Design For Manufacturing (DFM) aims to design a PCB which is reliable and feasible at minimum cost. This means you need to know how the PCB manufacturing process and PCB assembly process are, steps involved, limitations of each PCB maker or assembler and how much you are willing to spend. As many say this is a really big topic that can´t be covered in a single answer. I would suggested the DFM videos of EEVBLOG as introduction Part1 [this video] Part2 [LINK] Part3 [LINK]

Recommends hcheung · 2022-09 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “ESP32 + Li-po battery circuit PCB design”

In addition to all the good advises already in the comments, I'd like to provide a few general directions when designing a custom board. every MCU or SOC chip manufacturer publish some sort of hardware design guide or even reference design, read them. ESP32 is no exception, there is a ESP32 hardware design guidelines [LINK] available. every IC manufacturer publish datasheet for every chip they sell, there is always a section about PCB design do and don't in related to the chip. Add part number of each component in your schematic in addition to the chip reference number (U1, U2, etc.), this allows others to figure out what is the chip and the function easily, even they are not familiar with y