Power Planes in DesignSpark PCB

29 Jul 2011

Brom

United Kingdom

The use of planes in Multilayer PCB's can offer a designer advantages in terms of good grounding for noise, high speed design, reducing length and impedance on VCC traces and EMC considerations. DesignSpark PCB with the use of the "Translate to PCB" Wizard provides an easy way to add and assign extra layers to a PCB. This example shows a simple progress from a 2 to 4 layer board using VCC and GND planes. Layers can also be added at the PCB stage by use of the technolgy files.

I have added a simple video tutorial below:

I would like to ask the commmunity to share their thoughts and experiences on this blog with regards to using power planes. Good and Bad!

Really look forward to hearing back from you all.

Many thanks in advance

Brom!

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EVELWEEVIL

Australia

17 weeks ago

Where possible I always use a 4 layer board with power and ground planes. I may also split these planes fairly often, for example my power plane may have a regulated plane and a battery plane. This contributes a lot towards passing EMC testing, along with other good layout practices. Even if I have power planes I still tend to fill unused space on the top and bottom layers with ground plane, with plenty of interconnecting vias especially in RF circuits.

aniket das

India

24 weeks ago

nice one

Power Planes in DesignSpark PCB

Brom

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