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Design of PCB Trace Routing

perigalacticon
perigalacticon over 7 years ago

Looking for advice for designing a PCB with several functions.  I am an amateur PCB designer and only designed one other small board but it worked.

 

This project currently has the following features:

 

1.  5V & 3.3V power regulators.

2.  SPI signals from an ATTINY841-SU SOIC-14 MCU to a Dataflash SPI flash soic-8 IC.

3.  1W audio amplifier to external 8R .5W speaker.

4.  5x WS2812B surface mount Leds.

5.  5X capacitive touch pads (externally connected).

6 2x 6V  2CR1/3N2CR1/3N batteries in parallel

7.  2.25" square PCB, 2-sided, standard options.

 

I am looking for advice as to how to route the traces for best performance, I'm working with Eagle 8.3.2.  This a project for some gifts I am making for Halloween in a quantity of ~50.

 

I am mainly concerned about signal integrity and noise, especially the capacitive touch connections.  Currently I routed these last but there are many vias on these traces and I'm concerned that nearby external objects may affect the capacitance readings.  I could route these first on top with no vias but then the other signal traces are more complicated.  Is SPI sensitive to routing with several vias?  How about WS2812B data signals or small voltage audio signals?  How sensitive should I expect this system to be to routing overall?

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 7 years ago +1
    Why not post a.pdf of where you are at the moment - much easier to understand. Don't use traces as thin as 0.005" (0.125mm) unless you reall need to go that thin (which I doubt). You'll get cheaper and…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 7 years ago in reply to perigalacticon +1
    Hello Stephen, Any capacitance to ground will reduce the sensitivity of your touch system - if you are using a standard library and method defined by Atmel/Microchip for the ATiny then it will have supporting…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 7 years ago in reply to perigalacticon +1
    I just looked again at your batteries: Check the data here: https://www.duracell.com/en-us/techlibrary/product-technical-data-sheets?region=262&code=px28l This battery (and the Duracells will be better…
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  • saravananeceait
    saravananeceait over 7 years ago

    SPI signals from an ATTINY841-SU SOIC-14 MCU to a Dataflash SPI flash soic-8 IC : You can go with 5.00 Mils trace width

    5x WS2812B surface mount Leds : You can go with 5.00 Mils trace width

    I am sure about these two you can route 5 mils!

    If its  correct let me know or else suggest i'll learn something!

     

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  • saravananeceait
    saravananeceait over 7 years ago

    SPI signals from an ATTINY841-SU SOIC-14 MCU to a Dataflash SPI flash soic-8 IC : You can go with 5.00 Mils trace width

    5x WS2812B surface mount Leds : You can go with 5.00 Mils trace width

    I am sure about these two you can route 5 mils!

    If its  correct let me know or else suggest i'll learn something!

     

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