Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 14:12:17 EDT 2002 | dason_c
Not now, Valor may under develop the module for its Trilogy 5000 with the stencil aperture based on the rules which you set. Also, check with IRI stencil (Alpha), they have a s/w and based on using ODB++ file and not Gerber. Rgds.
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 11:10:25 EDT 2002 | wister
Is there any software to design the stencil openings? It may be including automatic modify the aperture,monitoring aspect ratio and area ratio,even let you know the whole vloume of the opening and average ratio?because the stencil design is more impo
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 31 07:52:23 EDT 2008 | davef
For a better understanding of decoupling capacitors, look here: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_capacitor * http://www.hottconsultants.com/techtips/decoupling.html * http://pcdandf.com/cms/content/view/3410/95/
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:07:40 EDT 2008 | jemills
Hello I have a new 0402 pad design on a recent board were building in future. On closer look i thought the pad was a thru hole mount , but upon closer inspection the round pads are for 0402 comps. I had a discussion with the engineer and he said
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:36:18 EDT 2008 | grantp
Hi, Sounds like your engineer does not know what he's doing. We have developed and built hundreds of thousands of boards with normal square pads for 0402, and we just use a 5 thou stencil with 5% reduction and it works well. Decoupling? What is tha
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 22:29:58 EDT 2008 | davef
For most applications, a nice square [or rectangle] pad works just fine. Assemblers ship boat loads of boards with these every day. It's reasonable for tight decoupling capacitor requirement applications to use round or radiused pads for components
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 14 19:09:40 EDT 2012 | kahrpr
When we get a very large board that's arrayed or one I think will be difficult we send a sample board. It helps our stencil manufacturer get it right. So for it has worked for us.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 09:50:51 EDT 2007 | pjc
There have been many designs of apertures for 0402, round, home plate, inverted home plate and various reduction amounts for square or rectangular apertures. What works best for a given application depends on PCB design, solder land finish, stencil t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 06 04:55:59 EDT 2012 | ccgooi
I have fabricated a artwork of stencil on a mylar and make comparison on PCB and Stencil in order to confirm if there is any PCB stretching at both end. The results are comparable for both stencil and PCB without any stretching . So,I assumed that th
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 10:01:43 EDT 2007 | realchunks
Hi aj, Pete is right, there are several variables that can affect your quality when it comes to stencil design. A good idea is to have a stencil made with various designs incorporated into it. A lot of engineers like the reverse homeplate design.
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