mstechca
New Member
My goal with PCB making is to design the PCB's as small as possible without having the components touch each other.
When I do my transistor radio circuits, I have no problem doing this. When I do IC's, I run into problems. It seems that I can complete some connections by drawing a track around the outside of the circuit.
My PCB board is single sided, and I want to avoid using external wires to make the connections.
Right now, I'm trying to connect nor gates to inverters to 4017 counters. I have the circuit on my other computer, but as soon as I use two chips, the 3rd, 4th, etc become more difficult to connect.
Also, because the small track width has led to some broken connections, the lowest track width I can go is 0.5 mm.
Anyone have insight on some basic steps on making a perfect PCB from a circuit diagram without wasting hours on how each track is made?
If you have tons of experience making PCB's, I would like to hear from you first.
thanks
When I do my transistor radio circuits, I have no problem doing this. When I do IC's, I run into problems. It seems that I can complete some connections by drawing a track around the outside of the circuit.
My PCB board is single sided, and I want to avoid using external wires to make the connections.
Right now, I'm trying to connect nor gates to inverters to 4017 counters. I have the circuit on my other computer, but as soon as I use two chips, the 3rd, 4th, etc become more difficult to connect.
Also, because the small track width has led to some broken connections, the lowest track width I can go is 0.5 mm.
Anyone have insight on some basic steps on making a perfect PCB from a circuit diagram without wasting hours on how each track is made?
If you have tons of experience making PCB's, I would like to hear from you first.
thanks