[sdiy] PCB files

[Mike Beauchamp]

My Guess (don't get me wrong, i've only designed a single circuit
board in my life thus far) about making boards easier to troubleshoot
would be to layout things so certain areas obviously do certain
things. Like, have all the components for waveshaping right near
eachother, etc. so the board sort of has a flow and you can trace the
signal from one area to the other. (unlike the posted board, where
things are only organized by type. Yeah, all the IC's are in a nice
line, but what is each one responsible for?).

Another good idea may be lots of test points?

Always socketing IC's might be good. Ive also seen transistors socketed..

I'm sure there are plenty of other things that help with
troubleshooting.. but my guess is that a logical layout probably helps
a lot, if not the most.

some of the crap i've taken apart has even taken the liberty to have
each area on the circuit board sectioned off with lines and labelled
on the silkscreen layer. this tape deck I tried fixing had all these
areas conveniently labelled for dolby processing, power filtering,
etc.. etc.

Mike


> Interesting... How do you make troubleshooting hardier or easier ?
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