Bandwidth or Function? What to Focus on When Designing High-Density Circuits (Download)
As PCB feature sizes shrink and component packages grow more capable, it’s tempting to view circuit density primarily as a layout problem emphasizing finer traces, smaller vias, and tighter clearances. In practice, however, architecture-level decisions often determine whether a dense design is elegant or tortured.
By rethinking how circuits are grouped, how data moves, and where logic lives, designers can achieve substantial gains in circuit density, signal integrity, and manufacturability — often all at the same time.