Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 10:15:27 EST 2007 | devajj
Of course if you are an OEM you could go back to your design engineers and tell them via's in SMD pads is unacceptable. Put that in your DFM design guidelines. If you are an EMS provider you can also influence your customer by explaining the impa
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 30 08:39:05 EST 2015 | spoiltforchoice
http://blog.screamingcircuits.com/2010/09/smd-vs-nsmd.html such as this? Which handily also tells you what you might want to google.
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 21 15:02:46 EST 2007 | jlawson
From info I have been told from design standpoint, via in pads helps with managing EMC issues with working design, in particular for high speed digital/dense populated type PCB's. We had a manufacturing customer that had very low yield because of th
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 14 14:44:10 EST 2007 | grantp
Hi, Those via's sure do sound large, and I think the designer must have made a mistake in the PCB design do you think? From looking at our PCB designs, if we moved to via in pad, it would really reduce the size of the PCB, so this is an important i
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 14 13:05:40 EST 2007 | rgduval
I had one project with micro-vias in 0805 and larger pads, with no issues. But my most recent project had vias that were larger than the 0402 pads that the via was in. To the point that for a number of the lands, there was no visible pads (a couple
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 08:11:16 EST 2007 | grantp
Hi, What is this unacceptable? Designed the PCB is much easer if this is possible, so it would be really good to know why via in pad is a problem in production. Grant
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 05 02:51:48 EST 2007 | omidjuve
our boards have many smd pads that has vias under them so when the screen printer wants to print the solder paste on it , it will penetrate through the via to the bottom side of the board and cause many problem for us . i want to know that is it sta
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 09:36:18 EST 2007 | rgduval
From a manufacturing standpoint, this isn't very nice. Vias will tend to wick solder away from the pad, resulting in insuficient solder joints, which require touch-up. The amount of times any solder joint is reheated should be minimized, as extra h
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 23 15:46:06 EST 2007 | mika
Question: We have an issue right know on a prototype batch with via in the pad on an very small pcb 50x50mm (in a panel of course). The designer has no room to move the vias as they said. The pcb is to packed with components also 8-layers. It is also
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 23 16:32:05 EST 2007 | davef
There a several things you can do to prevent the solder wicking down the hole with the current design, and that's where you should focus. Cost goes up as you go down the list, but in neither case do you need to respin the board, have solder starvatio
