Hey all, I’m a student working on my first PCB with KiCad, and I’m dealing with some high-speed signals (around 100 MHz). I’m a bit unsure about the best way to route them to maintain signal integrity things like trace width, impedance, and grounding I get, but how about trace length matching and avoiding interference? Any tips or tricks within KiCad that could help with this?
Appreciate any advice!
Be aware, this forum is about using the Kicad software. Design questions really belong somewhere else. This seems to be almost fair game. I’ll let the community decide if there is enough ‘on topic’ stuff to keep this open.
Not trying to be a hard axe here. We have a hard time keeping this site from going too far off topic. Good luck with the project. Have you checked out https://EEVblog for general advice?
KiCad has tools to route differential pairs and to check/set track length by semi automatic adding meanders on track or track pairs. See and experiment with Route menu. Unfortunately I am writing from PC with KiCad V5 only, so I’m even not sure if menu position has still that name.
I’m not using these features but they certainly are described in KiCad PCB manual.