Plan au sol solide vs Plan au sol hachuré

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Ainsi, récemment, lorsque je routais un circuit imprimé, je suis tombé sur l'option de remplir / verser mon plan de masse avec du cuivre solide ou hachuré. J'ai aussi remarqué que le vieil arduino duemilanove avait aussi un avion au sol éclos.

Quels sont les avantages d'un plan de masse hachuré par rapport à un plan de sol solide et inversement.

Vikram
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Un avion éclos doit peser un peu moins… est-ce que cela peut avoir de l'importance?
joeforker
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Nous sommes allés plaid!
joeforker
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Je ne peux pas imaginer une situation dans laquelle le poids du conseil aurait une telle précision qu'un changement différent ne le rend pas meilleur.
Kortuk
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I know large solid ground planes have a completely different heat up rate compared to non-ground plane. This effect reflow soldering. I could see hatching having an effect in this, but I would imagine it would be small.
Kellenjb

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As others said, it's mostly because it was easier to manufacture than solid layers for various reasons.

They also can be used in certain situations where you need controlled impedance on a very thin board. The traces width needed to get 'normal' impedances on such a thin board would be ridiculously narrow but the cross hatching changes the impedance characteristics on adjacent layers to allow wider traces for a given impedance.

If for some reason you need to do this, you can only route controlled impedance traces at 45 deg to the hatch pattern. This approach greatly increases mutual inductance between signals and consequently, cross-talk. Also note that this only works when the size of the hatch is much less than the length of the signal's rise time, this normally correlates to the frequency of the digital signals in question. As such, as frequency increases you reach a point where the hatch pattern would have to be so tightly spaced that you lose any benefit vs a solid plane.

In summary: Never use a cross hatched ground plane, unless you're stuck in some really weird situation. Modern PCB construction and assembly techniques no longer require it.

Mark
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Crosshatched should be used specifically for increasing impedance of the traces. With a small crosshatch(ie. no traces go over a gap together) there will not be many crosstalk problems but give you the impedance you need.
Kortuk
I already gave you a +1, but please edit to note that the crosshatching should only be used in an impedance situations. It is still acceptable for high speed signals, you just need to make sure traces are sufficiently separated to stop crosstalk.
Kortuk
i don't completely agree, but i edited to replace my general language with more specific issues as frequency increases
Mark
the hatched ground plane does not have to decrease in size with frequency, it must decrease in size with relation to trace spacing to remove crosstalk.
Kortuk
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In general, I agree. Never use hatched ground planes. This will be true for 99% of people. If you need one and realize it, you probably do not care our opinion, as you know your stuff.
Kortuk
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I believe hatched ground planes are easier to solder on to due to their thermal properties. The counter to this is to use a solid plane but put solder reliefs around each pin/pad that you need to solder to on the ground plane.

Other then that I am not sure of other reasons, maybe others have an idea.

For me, I always use solid planes. It is easier to etch since there isn't a bunch of little things you have to etch off.

EDIT: I did some Google searching and found this page: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/parts/89354-ground-planes-solid-vs-hatched.html

Kellenjb
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This is not correct vikram. This is a confusion between hatched ground planes and thermal relief. Mark is correct here.
Kortuk
After doing much internet surfing for trying to figure this out I am still unsure. Pretty much everything I see online points to this being a fabrication issue. However, I was shown a book that talks about it being an impedance issue. Currently I am leaning toward trusting the book. If the book is correct, my answer is not the correct answer.
Kellenjb
That is what I referenced.
Kortuk
@Kortuk: I would guess cross-hatched ground planes probably came about when automated tools didn't do thermal reliefs.
supercat
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Cross-hatching avoids problems with large copper areas when using the toner transfer technique, or if a laser printer is used to generate photo-etch artwork. Now I use an inkjet printer to produce transparencies I don't usually bother with it. I use thermal reliefs if I need to make soldering easier on copper areas.

It's not so good from an environmental point of view, perhaps, as more copper has to be removed. OTOH, the copper can be reclaimed by commercial board makers, and doesn't end up in landfill, when the equipment containing the board is disposed of.

Leon Heller
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Don't modern commercial board makers start with a very tiny amount of copper on the board, only to build up the rest with electroplating, so the amount of copper used up in the process is proportional to what you've laid out?
joeforker
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@joeforker: Would you call half the copper "a very tiny amount"? my understanding is that modern commercial board makers usually start with boards covered in 17 um ("half-ounce") copper foil, and dissolve the copper in areas where it is not wanted. On the outer layers and inside drilled holes, they then (usually) build up another 17 um ("half-ounce) of copper with some combination of "electroless copper" and electroplating.
davidcary
I would call 1um a tiny amount, they get this from the electroless plating. Haven't watched the entire movie: eurocircuits.com/index.php/making-a-pcb-eductional-movies
joeforker
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Another reason to use hatched planes is for a flexible PCB. There are a number of benifits of a hatched plane vs a solid plane. A solid plane has the potential for cracking along a bend line, this is far less likely with a hatched plane. More importantly for a flexible PCB a hatched plane allows for more flexibility in the bends.


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One more reason why hatched planes should be preferred for flexible PCBs is the drying process needed with the flexible material (Polyimide) prior to soldering. With a hatched plane, the moisture can exit the flexible carrier material, whereas it is trapped under solid planes.

zebonaut
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One common usage of hatched copper pour comes up when designing capacitive touch-sensing user-interface (buttons, sliders, etc.)

As touch introduced change in capacitance is around a pF (+- an order of magnitude, depending on actual implementation), you would like to minimize the baseline capacitance. The solid ground plane around the trace (connecting the button-pad and the controller measuring it) adds more parasitic capacitance than a hatched one. Application note from Texas on Capacitive touch sense, mentioning this.

Krisztián Szegi
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My understanding was that solid panes could cause bubbling during through-hole wave-solder processes due to outgassing from the laminate, but the slower heat/cool times of SMD reflow probably make this less of an issue -I have certainly seen some (very) old boards with bubbled copper planes.

mikeselectricstuff
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Bubbled copper planes were usually due to mask over solder-plated copper vs. the now-common mask over copper with ENIG or HASL only on exposed copper surfaces. The solder under the mask allowed more solder to wick under the mask.
SteveRay
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Mesh ground planes are use when making flexible PCBs. Using sold grounds makes the FPCB very stiff and causes mechanical breaking of traces on other layers. The Mesh ground plane is a higher inductance plane.

user77250
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Hatched plane reduce the magnetic field going vertically into the board.


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Other manufacturing issues are created by the crosshatch fill. It causes tiny bits of laminar to break away and possible deposit across traces causing shorts and breaks. It also makes the data very large. Large enough to cause issues in CAM, photoplotting and AOI.

Peter Word
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hatch planes are good for a couple of applications. return path in flex circuits. I use them in areas to reduce thermal transfer. if you have something hot next to a thing you want to keep cool, hatched planes for gnd retruns into the cool areas can help a lot.

Rontopia
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