PCB Fab and Assembly Notes for Designers
Sierra Circuits’ PCB Fab and Assembly Notes for Designers helps you create efficient fabrication and assembly documentation.
Sierra Circuits’ PCB Fab and Assembly Notes for Designers helps you create efficient fabrication and assembly documentation. It highlights the importance of clear communication with manufacturers to avoid board respins and delays.
This guide provides a detailed breakdown of what you should include in your board fabrication notes, with examples at the end of each chapter.
It begins with the essential fabrication notes like stack-up details, controlled impedance, via types, solder mask instructions, testing, and packaging requirements. This ebook also addresses how to document your requirements for rigid-flex, hybrid stack-ups, embedded components, and specialized assemblies involving coatings, stiffeners, and panelization strategies.
On the assembly side, the handbook explains how to document component orientation, soldering conditions, polarity markings, and compliance notes. It also outlines specialized assembly instructions such as underfill, stiffeners, and fiducial placement.
The PCB Fab and Assembly Notes for Designers presents the best practices to help you write accurate notes to eliminate miscommunications with the manufacturers.
Here’s a fab and assembly notes template that you can download and use for your next design.
What’s inside:
- Instructions to create a comprehensive fab documentation with examples
- Advanced fabrication notes for flex, rigid-flex, and hybrid stack-ups
- Difference between fabrication and assembly notes
- Assembly documentation essentials: BOM, X-Y data, and drawings
