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For Good Measure

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Don't mix your units.

When I first started in the PCB fabrication industry, I was fresh from college and ready to jump in and make an impact. The first hurdle I hit was likely the same as many first-time designers: units of measure for PCB design. Remember back in school, your physics professors or science teachers likely pointed out missing units in tables, graphs or homework assignments? That problem.

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Figure 1. The three units of measure commonly used to describe the relative thickness of a PCB layer.

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