Sunil, I would advise staying away from 2 oz copper thickness, espeacially if this is a large board. I have seen alot of reliability issues related to such a thick metal. Regards, Dagmara Avanindra On 7/15/07, sunil bharadwaz <sunil_bharadwaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Experts , > I have been doing mixed signal boards , Digital , Analog & RF .RF up to > 5 Ghz.No big issues so far. > > We are planning to do similar kind of boards with a new SOC.There is > a concern regarding the IR drop as most of the permissible margins are > eaten away at the package & chip levels. > > To mitigate this effect to a larger extent , the plan is to use 2 Ounce & > higher levels of Cu thickness.So far we have been doing the mixed signal > boards with Cu thickness of 1 Oz. > > Could there be any issues with this approach for the mixed signal boards ? > > Appreciate any inputs in this regards. > > Best Regards > Sunil.B > > > > > --------------------------------- > The fish are biting. > Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu