Project
Center


PCB Design


Capabilities

Recent design experience includes the following:

  • High-speed digital designs up to 10GHz
  • 10/100 Ethernet, GigE, 10GigE, XAUI, PCI-X, PCIe, RapidIO
  • Memory - DDR, DDR2, DDR3, QDR, DIMM, RDIMM, FB-DIMM, SO-DIMM
  • Extremely dense, high pincount, small form factor PCB's
  • HDI blind/burried/micro vias
  • 24 layers, dual thickness, exotic dielectrics
  • Multi-chip modules, flip-chip and chip on board
  • Linecards and Backplanes
  • all flavours of Chip Scale Packaging

Example Projects


Verification DIMM

Size:
5.25"x2.00"
Thickness:
0.050"
Layers:
10
Nets:
3956
Components:
789
Lands:
4093
Vias:
2645

18x4Gb 1333MHz DualDie DDR3
0.65mm pitch Register/Clock ASIC
0.50mm pitch Interface IC ASIC x9
Detachable debug circuit

10GbE Linecard

Size:
5.25"x6.30"
Thickness:
0.093"
Layers:
14
Nets:
3949
Components:
1258
Lands:
4284
Vias:
3058

10Gb/s Serial Data Transmission, dual XFP tranceivers, XAUI mux/demux

CPU Mezzanine Card

Size:
4.0"x7.0"
Thickness:
0.063"
Layers:
12
Nets:
4826
Components:
988
Lands:
5209
Vias:
3263

FreeScale CPU, DDR2, GiGE, XAUI, CompactFlash, BGA Mezzanine connector.

PCI-X x64 Card

Size:
4.2"x12.28"
Thickness:
0.093",0.062" (dual)
Layers:
22
Nets:
14336
Components:
3814
Lands:
15027
Vias:
21068

thru/blind/micro

0.093" PCI card that mates with a 0.062" edge connector. Other challenges: component density, thermal management, and power distribution

Multi-Chip Module (MCM)

Size:
31mm x 31mm
Thickness:
1mm
Layers:
8
Nets:
1032
Components:
491
Lands:
1047
Vias:
1132

thru/blind/micro

cPCI Active Backplane

Size:
16.75" x 10.32"
Thickness:
0.93"
Layers:
20
Nets:
11851
Components:
491
Lands:
12978
Vias:
7505

One of five PCB's designed for a custom ASIC evaluation platform based on the CompactPCE form factor. Project also included thermal analysis, metalwork, and industrial design.