Thanks to everyone for your responses. What I've decided to do is to do two layouts - one single-sided and the other double-sided. That way we'll be able to see which, if either, of the layouts will work. If they both work, then I guess we'll just stick with the single-sided approach, but if...
Gunnar,
I wish this were for a happy meal toy! This circuit is for a xenon strobe with a piezoelectric horn. The grounding problem is aggrevated by the discharge of the xenon flash tube. Basically this circuit is a DC/DC boost converter with a 16 kHz switching frequency. We don't have a...
I'm working on a new circuit board layout that has so far gone through 3 revisions and a fourth revision is required. The main problem with the layout has been due to ground trace placement. We are forced to use single sided layouts because of the cost, but I am trying to convince my boss that...
Sometimes they are dead shorts, other times they are near shorts, less than 20 ohms. We also have parts that appear to fail but measure normal (~0.2V) as a diode, but the reverse leakage current is through the roof.
I would be surprised to have the cause of the failure be excessive current...
I am having a problem with a 60V Schottky diode. We are having around a 1% failure rate of the diodes in production. This appears to be an early break-in type of failure, since we don't have any failures that show up during life testing. The failure mode is a short. We have not been able to...
