First attempt at PCB design

Robb;

Check us out at www.sunstone.com for board fab for your design, for a variety of reasons. Some of these may be important to you, and others may not, all depending upon what you want from your project:

• Without anything more than your schematic and the .brd file, it would look like your board is a candidate for our VALUEPROTO service. 5 day turn times on 2-layer boards, as low as $28/board.  There aren't a lot of bells and whistles in VALUEPROTO, but you get boards built to the same quality level as all our Sunstone service levels. You can quote it yourself at www.sunstone.com to see what your actual pricing would be

• Alternatively, if you need faster turn times than 5 days, higher quantities, or a multilayer, then try quoting your design on our PCBexpress prototyping service. Your boards will cost a bit more than VALUEPROTO, but you get a lot for the money from PCBexpress. Online quoting at www.sunstone.com
• Try ordering your board from inside the EAGLE CAD program. Sunstone is represented there; you can send your board to us from inside EAGLE. Doesn't get any more convenient than that.
• Prefer NOT to order from inside EAGLE? No worries! You can export to Gerber files, or you can send us the EAGLE native design files. We build from EAGLE files all the time.
• Check closely on sunstone.com, you'll find a beta version of our new  DFMplus utility. Submit your design files to us via DFMplus, and we'll send you a detailed report identifying any potential issues with your design that could turn into electrical issues or the like. Get some peace of mind BEFORE you plunk down the cash for the board build.
  
• Our pricing is competitive, but our service is top-of-the-industry. For VALUEPROTO and PCBexpress, we offer a 100% on-time guarantee. If we can't get the ENTIRE order to you by the expected delivery time, we refund your order 100%. No questions. No hoops for you to jump through. If we're late shipping your order, it's on us.
  
• Need a little assistance? Want to talk to a person to make sure you're doing it right? Looking for a verbal walkthrough of what happens at a board manufacturer after we receive your order? Want us to place the order FOR you? No problem there, either. Just call us 24/7/365 and talk to one of our in-the-factory customer service staffers. They can take care of you.
• And, as you can probably tell by our response, we spend a lot of time interacting with the PCB and electronics design community both face-to-face an in the forums/social media. We work hard to be like an extension of your design team.

There are a lot of adequate fabricators out there; only one or two world-class solutions providers. We're one of them. We won't be the cheapest, but we won't be the most expensive. What we WILL be is the highest quality overall.

Hope this helps.

Nolan Johnson

Robb;

Check us out at www.sunstone.com for board fab for your design, for a variety of reasons. Some of these may be important to you, and others may not, all depending upon what you want from your project:

• Without anything more than your schematic and the .brd file, it would look like your board is a candidate for our VALUEPROTO service. 5 day turn times on 2-layer boards, as low as $28/board.  There aren't a lot of bells and whistles in VALUEPROTO, but you get boards built to the same quality level as all our Sunstone service levels. You can quote it yourself at www.sunstone.com to see what your actual pricing would be

• Alternatively, if you need faster turn times than 5 days, higher quantities, or a multilayer, then try quoting your design on our PCBexpress prototyping service. Your boards will cost a bit more than VALUEPROTO, but you get a lot for the money from PCBexpress. Online quoting at www.sunstone.com
• Try ordering your board from inside the EAGLE CAD program. Sunstone is represented there; you can send your board to us from inside EAGLE. Doesn't get any more convenient than that.
• Prefer NOT to order from inside EAGLE? No worries! You can export to Gerber files, or you can send us the EAGLE native design files. We build from EAGLE files all the time.
• Check closely on sunstone.com, you'll find a beta version of our new  DFMplus utility. Submit your design files to us via DFMplus, and we'll send you a detailed report identifying any potential issues with your design that could turn into electrical issues or the like. Get some peace of mind BEFORE you plunk down the cash for the board build.
  
• Our pricing is competitive, but our service is top-of-the-industry. For VALUEPROTO and PCBexpress, we offer a 100% on-time guarantee. If we can't get the ENTIRE order to you by the expected delivery time, we refund your order 100%. No questions. No hoops for you to jump through. If we're late shipping your order, it's on us.
  
• Need a little assistance? Want to talk to a person to make sure you're doing it right? Looking for a verbal walkthrough of what happens at a board manufacturer after we receive your order? Want us to place the order FOR you? No problem there, either. Just call us 24/7/365 and talk to one of our in-the-factory customer service staffers. They can take care of you.
• And, as you can probably tell by our response, we spend a lot of time interacting with the PCB and electronics design community both face-to-face an in the forums/social media. We work hard to be like an extension of your design team.

There are a lot of adequate fabricators out there; only one or two world-class solutions providers. We're one of them. We won't be the cheapest, but we won't be the most expensive. What we WILL be is the highest quality overall.

Hope this helps.

Nolan Johnson

Thanks for the reply, I'm just wondering if you have a sevrice for idiot checking, IE "You realise all your vias are too small to work" or "your ICs can't have tracks under them" These are the two main concerns I have with the design at the moment. I've got the latest version uploaded, re-laid the power supplies to make them neater and with wider traces.

Board

Schematic

// Robb

When it comes to components, footprints, and assembly-related issues, I'd recommend reading Duane Benson's blog over at Screaming Circuits (www.screamingcircuits.com). Duane has a treasure trove of tips, tricks and techniques for handling board design so that components will fit and solder correctly. And successfully connecting components is, if you think about it, the whole reason for a PCB's existence! <GRIN!>

Nolan Johnson