I have designed the footprint and confirmed it accurate, but my issue is how I can possibly connect all the traces; the thing is so small!
My PCB fab has minimum trace width of 6mil and minimum clearance of 6mil, but with these restrictions I feel I have no hope routing all the pins. This is where I get stuck:
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Given most people would want the connector on the edge, its not really possible to loop the other 34 pins around the sides.
I know no one here may have experience with this specific connector, but does anyone have any ideas? I have PCBs in front of me with a VHDCI connector right on the edge and all the pins routed; how do they do it? What can I do to wire this thing up?
Change the pads on your "foot print".
1.) Keep the drill hole the same size but decrease the size of the copper.
2.) Make the pads not round but oblong.
There is .8mm (31mil) spacing between pins. Thus you can have a 6mil pad annulus on each pin, 6mil spacing, a 6mil trace between pins, and still have 1 mil to spare.