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Via in pad seems to be one of the hot topics these days. It's a bit of a tough one, too. The SMT guys pretty much always say, "don't ever do it." ...

Fig. 1: A typical PCB made of FR-4. Source: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Converting to microns is useful, because advanced package substrates can support dimensions measured ...