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Offline Vindhyachal.taknikiTopic starter

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Purpose of Strange pcb track
« on: March 09, 2015, 06:48:37 am »
I have attached some of PCB's showing strange PCb track. (zoom out file to 50% for clarity).

What is their purpose. Shouldn't they be straight way connected?
 

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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2015, 06:51:47 am »
A very typical trace length matching.
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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2015, 06:53:01 am »
It's either to get a specific resistance or to adjust the delay in a signal bus so all the signals arrive at the same time.
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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2015, 06:54:30 am »
This is to have a precise delay  in the transmission of the signal.
 

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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2015, 07:05:19 am »
i always wondered what that was about. i see them all the time on computer motherboards.
 

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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2015, 07:12:40 am »
Yep, when dealing with GHz parallel buses it doesn't take much difference in track length before some of the bits from one clock cycle arrive too late, which, as you can imagine, causes some issues  :palm:
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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2015, 03:26:25 pm »
It is very fast DIO board (upto 50Mhz).
I have noticed that tracks which had small distance between them, only those where made wiggled.
Tracks which had large distance very straight lines.

So I think correct reason would be
This is done to have signals to arrive at the same time at the end of the line.
 

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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2015, 04:07:32 pm »
Tracks that run in parallel close to each other are differential pairs, to the length alignment is necessary to ensure that the signal in two wires travels the same distance and arrives with the same delay.
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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2015, 04:10:32 pm »
I doubt those are differential pairs...
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Re: Purpose of Strange pcb track
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2015, 04:11:53 pm »
It looks like the place that is show on the picture is the part where they have already been separated. Although they do look strange. There seems to be plenty of space here to keep them running in parallel.
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