How to connect Traces

[Piotr]

@Tali_Mosley

Because when going through the tutorial of creating a GND plane, I was instructed to make both the F_Cu and B_Cu planes to be GND.

I always have GND plane at both sides, but only one of them is continuous (no other tracks at this side). At the other side I have many GND islands and don’t care about it, but each island i connect with some vias to the GND on the other, continuous GND side.
Example you can see here:

Approaching PCB track routing for a newbie

Positioning for me is the main work in designing PCB. If each element is where it is needed than routing is simple. Till now all my PCBs are 2 layers and all of them have GND plane taking 100% of bottom layer. So except GND I design my PCBs as 1 layer. I use microcontrollers in QFP packages without thermal pad at bottom. This allows me to go with VCC under the microcontroller and go out through all corners and all VCC pins. That way GND and VCC don’t disturb my signal connections. At all digi…