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RAYMING PCB & ASSEMBLY

High Quality Single Sided PCB Manufacturer


What Is a Single Side PCB?

Single side PCB is a one layer PCB, in which all electronic components are

on one side of the board and all circuits at another layer.

Single Sided PCB is the simplest printed circuit board, only have one layer

of conductive material and are best suited for low density designs,Holes in

the board are usually not plated through.

Component parts is layouted on one side and the circuit is on the other

side. As there is only layer conductor, it is called single sided pcb

(Single-sided pcb or one layer pcb. It is restricted in the circuit

design (because there is only one side conductor, and no cross permitted,

each line must have its own path), so it is more frequently used in the

early printed circuits pcb.

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Single sided PCB diagram mainly use network printing (Screen

Printing) .That is to print resist on the bare copper, etch and then

print solder mask, finally punching to finish parts plated hole and profile.

In addition, some small amount of various products usually use

photoresist to pattern circuit.

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Single Sided PCB Stack Up

Single layer pcb Raw Material

Fr4 Grade Fiberglass Laminates

Aluminum

Copper base

Cem 1

Cem 3

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Single Side PCB Working Principle

PCB uses raw insulating material to isolate the surface copper

foil conductive layer. Due to this, the current flows in various components

along a pre-designed route to complete functions such as work,

amplification, attenuation, modulation, demodulation, encoding, etc.

Single PCB Structure

The single PCB mainly consists of pads, vias, mounting holes,

wires, components, connectors, filling, and electrical boundaries. Circuit

board

The main functions of each part are as follow:

Pad: A metal hole used to solder the pins of components.

Via: A metal hole used to connect component pins between layers.

Mounting hole: Used to fix the circuit board.

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Wire: The copper film of the electrical network used to connect the pins of

the components.

Connectors: Used to connect components between circuit boards.

Filling: Used for copper coating of ground wire network, which can

effectively reduce impedance.

Electrical boundary: Used to determine the size of the circuit board; all

components on the circuit board cannot exceed the boundary.

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Single Side PCB Technology

Item Content
Material type : XPC FR-1 FR-4 CEM-1
Surface finish : ENIG gold, HASL Immersion Tin, Chemical Silver OSP
Layer No : Single side, Multilayer PCB
Max PCB size: 1500mm*600mm
Min PCB size: 5mm*5mm
Min space/width: 0.1mm
Warp and Twist: ≤0.5%(board thickness:1.6mm,PCB size : 300mm*300mm)
Board thickness: 0.3-5.0mm
Copper thickness: 35um-240um
Outline Tolerance: ±0.15mm
V-CUT Precision: ±0.1mm
Capacity: 80000 ㎡/Month
PTH Dia tolerance: ±0.076mm
Outline tolerance: CNC :±0.1mm punch:±0.15mm

Single Side PCB Function

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After electronic equipment adopts circuit boards, manual wiring errors

can be avoided due to the consistency of similar circuit boards. Electronic

components can be automatically inserted or mounted, automatic

soldering, and automatic detection, ensuring the quality of electronic

equipment and improving labor productivity, reduce costs, and facilitate

maintenance.

Single Side PCB Material

Printed single-sided PCB is generally made of foil-clad and copper-clad

laminates. The plate selection should consider electrical performance,

feasibility, processing requirements, economic indicators, etc. Commonly

used copper-clad laminates include copper-clad phenol paper laminates,

copper-clad epoxy paper laminates, and copper-clad laminates.

For multilayer PCB, foil epoxy glass cloth laminate, copper-clad epoxy

phenol glass cloth laminate, copper-clad PTFE glass cloth laminate, and

epoxy glass cloth are used.

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Single Side PCB Price

The single PCB price is accelerated and rationalized with the improvement

of single side PCB production technology and equipment. Usually,

suppliers will not directly provide quotations. You can consult Raypcb

Electronics for single PCB quotations.

Single Side PCB Supplier

RayMing is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the production and R&D

of various single-sided PCB. The single-sided PCB, single-sided aluminum

PCB, single-sided circuit boards, and other various FR-4 circuit

boards produced with comparable advanced foreign products. Product

specifications apply to electronic watches, calculators, general-purpose

computers, as large as computers, electronic communication equipment,

and military weapon systems. Lastly, PCBs are used for electrical

interconnection if there are electronic components such as integrated

circuits.

Single Side PCB Production Time

What’s should be the focus on for single side PCB?

1. Production time:3-5 days for sample, 5-7 days for mass production

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2. Quality request:The customer’s detailed requirements, size,

thickness, craftsmanship, whether it is invoiced, can it be collected

by express delivery, and are there any special requirements?

3. Are mass production required in the future? Is it long-term

cooperation? All of them should be figure it out one by one.

How to improve long delivery time for single side PCB?

1. Make more boards in stock

2. Arrange the full day production

3. The delivery date needs to be negotiated with the customer

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How to maintain Single Side PCB?

Circuit board engineers have their maintenance methods and ideas.

However, the maintenance steps can be summarized in the following six

steps. To understand the board’s failure to repair, first understand the

failure situation and set the failure judgment within a smaller range to

facilitate the maintenance work. Therefore, understanding the failure of

the circuit board is very important for starting maintenance.

1. Board observation: Board observation is preliminary research. The

purpose is to understand what input and output interfaces the board has,

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what functions the board implements, and the distribution of various

control parts of the board.

2. Circuit test: After completing the fault observation and analysis,

perform preliminary inspections on the board. The initial circuit test may

not find the board’s fault point, but an experienced circuit board

maintenance personnel manually perform the test, exclude a wide range

of faults, and pave the way for the next repair.

3. Component inspection: In most component inspections, the

components need to be removed from the PCBA circuit board with

a soldering iron and inspected by professional equipment. This process

will damage the circuit board’s external integrity, so under normal

circumstances, maintenance personnel will not dismantle components.

4. Fault maintenance: Fromline testingto component inspection, the

maintenance steps are designed to deal with the faults discovered,

including line repair, component replacement, and transformation.

5. Test on the computer: The board that has completed the maintenance

work needs to be tested again. After confirming that there is no fault, it

is tested on the computer.

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Printed circuit boards are made of glass fiber, epoxy resin, and a variety of

metal compounds. If waste aluminum substrates are not properly

disposed of, the brominated flame retardants and other carcinogens in

them will cause serious damage to the environment and human health. .

At the same time, waste circuit boards also have a high economic value.

The metal grade in the circuit boards is equivalent to dozens of times the

metal grade in ordinary minerals. The metal content is as high as 10~60%,

and the most content is copper. Gold, silver, nickel, tin, lead, and other

metals are rare metals, and the content of rich ore metals in nature is only

3~5%.

The report shows 1 ton of computer components contain an average of

0.9 kg of gold, 270 kg of plastic, 128.7 kg of copper, 1 kg of iron, 58.5 kg of

lead, 39.6 kg of tin, 36 kg of nickel, 19.8 kg of antimony, as well as

palladium, platinum, and other precious metals. It can be seen that waste

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circuit boards are also a “gold mine.” According to a circuit board

fabrication disposal survey, in most parts of the country, the waste circuit

boards and frame materials are transported to remote areas for

treatment by incineration and washing methods, causing

severe secondary problems.

The State Environmental Protection Administration has banned the

incineration method because it produces a large amount of odorous and

toxic bromine compounds, which seriously pollutes the atmosphere.

However, in remote mountainous areas, incineration workshops occur.

The water washing method has been widely used due to its simple

process and low investment. However, a large amount of waste

residues, such as non-metallic substances (which account for about 80%

of the weight of the aluminum substrate produced after washing), still

cause great harm to the environment. It is difficult to treat or eliminate

these waste residues. Most of the washing enterprises put the waste

residue as domestic waste in landfills or handed over to the sanitation

department for disposal.

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Single Side PCB Application and Characteristics

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The single-sided PCB is more and more widely used because it has many

unique advantages; the summary is as follows.

High density – For decades, high density printed boards

have developed with the improvement of integrated circuit integration

and the advancement of mounting technology.

High reliability – Through a series of inspections, tests, and aging tests,

the PCB can work reliably for an extended period (usually 20 years).

Designability – For the various performance (electrical, physical, chemical,

mechanical, etc.) requirements of the single panel, the printed board can

be designed through design standardization in a short time and with high

efficiency.

Producibility – With modern production management, it can be

standardized, scaled (quantified), automated, etc., to ensure product

quality consistency.

Testability – Complete test methods, standards, various test

equipment, and instruments have been established to detect and

appraise the eligibility and service life of the single PCB.

Assembled – The circuit board facilitates the standardized assembly of

various components and enables automated and large-scale mass

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production. At the same time, circuit boards and various

component assembly parts can be assembled to form larger parts and

systems, up to the complete machine

Maintainability – Circuit boards and various component assembly parts

are manufactured in standardized design and scale. If the system fails, it is

convenient to replace components quickly; the system can be restored

promptly with such flexibility. There are more examples, such as

miniaturization and weight reduction of the system, and high-speed signal

transmission.

Features of single PCB:

The so-called single-sided board is the most basic PCB, as all the parts are

concentrated on one side, and the wires are all concentrated on the other

side. Because the wires only appear on one side, we call this PCB a

single-sided. Because there are many strict restrictions on the design of

the single-sided board (there is only one side, and the wiring can not cross

and must go around a separate path), it is generally not used in modern

times, but it was used in the early days.

Single PCB wiring diagrams are mainly network printing. It is a resist

printed on the copper surface, and the mark is printed with a solder

mask after etching. Finally, the part’s guide hole and shape are completed

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by punching. In addition, some of the products that are produced in small

quantities and diversified use photoresist forming patterns.

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PCB single-sided proofing design process

First, we look at a picture:

Let’s take a look at what the design process looks like.

1. Preparation part:

At the beginning of the PCB layout, you should first complete

the schematic design and get the correct schematic. This is the basis of

the single-sided PCB design. Through the schematic diagram, we can get a

network table of the connection attributes of each device. According to the

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device’s parameters, we can find the relevant component information and

establish the package of all components. It is also necessary for the

structural part to cooperate to provide the size of the board frame,

installation position, and the position of the function excuse.

1. Specific operation part:

First, you need to import all the package files and netlists into the PCB

file with the frame. Some component packaging errors may occur during

the import process; please eliminate the errors according to the error

prompts.

1. Fixed structure related devices:

You have to fix devices such as LEDs, buttons, decks, liquid crystals,

infrared transmitters, etc. Move these devices to the corresponding

installation position, and select lock in the properties to prevent

misoperation.

1. Carry out a rough layout:

The purpose of the general layout is to determine the location of each

functional module. In PCB design, the default is generally:

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 Except for the devices that need to be mounted on the surface,

all SMD devices are placed on one side of the plug-in device, which

is generally the bottom layer.

 The metering unit is placed in the lower-left corner for easy access.

 Place the MCU on the back of the LCD, and make the leads short

enough.

 The interface part is placed in the lower-right corner of the PCB for

an easy cable outlet.

 Keep the transformer away from transformers and manganin

shunts that are sensitive to magnetic leakage.

 Keep enough creepage distance between circuits that need to be

isolated.

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1. Perform partial layout:

Complete the placement of the corresponding devices for each functional

module. The factors that need to be considered in the local layout are:

 The crystal oscillator should be as close as possible to the crystal

oscillator pin, and the trace should be as short as possible.

 The decoupling capacitor should be as close as possible to

the power input pin of the IC.

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 Devices with high-speed connections between ICs should be as

close as possible.

 It is necessary to consider the convenience of maintenance and

optimize the placement of some devices to avoid production

difficulties.

 Leave a certain board margin, which should be 4mm or more.

Otherwise, it is easy to cause accidental damage to the pick-up head

during patching in the SMT workshop, causing the device to collide

with the chain during wave soldering. It is impossible to use wave

soldering at one time. To complete the plug-in welding, more

stations need to be arranged to repair welding

 Varistors, polyester capacitors, transient suppression diodes,voltage

regulator tubes, and filter capacitors should be placed in the

device’s front end to be protected.

 Pay attention to the distance between high voltage and low voltage

signals.

1. Wiring of components

The wiring of components is also a critical process. You need to pay

attention to the following aspects when wiring:

 Knowing the magnitude of the current that each device may flow

and the maximum inrush current, you can roughly understand the

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possible impact of the signal carried on the trace on other signalsto

set the wire thickness.

 The wiring of the high-voltage signal to the varistor and the

polyester capacitor should be as wide as possible. This is so that the

protection device can release the overload energy in time and

preventthe line from being burned by the instantaneous high

current.

 The low-voltage power supply signal main circuit line uses 36mil to

reduce the wire resistance, and the width of 24mil or less can be

used near the chip.

 The small-signal connection can be 10mil or 12mil. Too thin will

cause the scrap rate to be too high, andtoo thick is meaningless.

 Do not route wires near high-frequency signals, such as the bottom

of a crystal oscillator.

 Minimize the connection of vias. The quality of the wiring directly

affects the performance of the PCB. In actual wiring, it may need to

be overthrown and restartedor even return to the schematic

diagram to modify the IO port definition. This is the most

time-consuming part.

1. Align the power cord:

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 The power cord’s wiringshould be of sufficient width to avoid

sudden changes in line width and right-angle corners. Also, the

power cord cannot be formed into a loop.

1. Floor treatment:

 A large ground plane is formed, which is equivalent to completing

the wiring of the ground wire.

1. Adjustment of device layout:

 When adjusting, prevent the large piece of ground from being

connected to the main ground only through a few vias. Pay

attention to the integrity of the floor under the chip. You can also

better observe the appearance of wiring and device placementand

whether the return loop of each signal is complete. In this step,

complete the adjustment and modification of all device labels, and

mark the company logo and PCB version number.

1. Check the drawing specifications of all PCB boards:

 Also,point out the error and highlight the error.

1. Export PCB:

 The export format is Protel PCB 2.8 ASCII File.

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1. Send out proofing.

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How to DIY a Single-Layer PCB ?

The project is a self-made PCB to improve the anti-interference ability of

the circuit. The following process can produce a high-precision PCB with a

line width of 10 mils and a pitch of 8 mils that can be welded with 64-pin

SMD packages with MSP430 chips. The probability of wire breakage

is relatively small.

Tools and materials used

Altium Designer + home laser printer + thermal transfer machine +

homemade PCB special corrosion tank + blue environmentally friendly

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corrosive + laser toner remover + small hand drill + glass fiber copper-clad

laminate (or bakelite copper-clad laminate).

Draw PCB (using Altium Designer)

1.1000mil = 1 inch = 2.54cm, the hole spacing of the universal board is

2.54mm = 0.1 inch = 100 mil.

1. Use SMD components as much as possible to

reduce drilling issues.

2. SMD components and wiring are on the same side, and in-line

components are installed on the other side.

3. After the PCB is created, it is difficult to modify at will like a universal

board, so the test points should be reserved appropriately.

4. PCB rules (Rules) reference value:

Track Width> 15mil (10 mil may be broken during transfer).

Clearance> 10 mil, preferably set to 30 mil or more. The distance that is

too small will be difficult to weld.

Pad: The aperture is set to 20mil, and drilling is required later (after setting

20mil to be corroded, it is more convenient for the drill bit to be

positioned when drilling). Diameter>80mil, the larger the diameter, the

easier drilling will be later (if the outer diameter is too small, the drill will

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be slightly offset. The ring pad will be disconnected, which will cause the

soldering to be unstable and the pad to fall off more easily). For common

pins such as ICs and transistors with an interval of 100 mils, if the pad

diameter is greater than 100 mils, adjacent pads will be connected, so it

can generally be set to 85 mils.

Copper-clad Plane -> Polygon Connect: Relif Connect, Conductor width> 20

mil, Airgap width = 15 mil.

The PCB substrate is set according to the actual size of the copper-clad

laminate. Generally, a single layer is used. If you make a double-layer

board, it is relatively difficult to align the two sides.

Print

Delete unnecessary layers: When printing, only the Top Layer or Bottom

Layer layer is printed, and the other layers are deleted.

If it is TopLayer, you should check Mirror.

The pad is printed as a hole (check Hole), so the later drilling will be better

positioned.

The color is set to pure black, and the print mode is set to monochrome

(Color Set: Mono).

Print size: ScalePrint 1.0, not Fit Document.


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Turn off the printer’s ink-saving mode. See the printer manual for specific

methods.

In order to prevent paper jams when directly inserting the thermal

transfer paper, cut a piece of thermal transfer paper and stick it on

ordinary A4 paper before printing, and print on the smooth side of the

thermal transfer paper. After printing, wait until the thermal transfer

paper has cooled down before the toner is completely fixed and transfer

is performed.

Thermal transfer

The heat transfer machine needs to be preheated 5 minutes in advance

and set to about 180°C.

The copper-clad laminate is polished with sandpaper first, and then the

invisible oil stains on the surface are cleaned with washing powder. After

cleaning, do not touch it with your hands and let it dry naturally (it is better

not to wipe with paper).

Cut the printed thermal transfer paper into a suitable size, and fix it on the

copper-clad laminate with heat-resistant paper tape.

Put it into the heat transfer machine; heat transfer about five times. Slowly

peel off the heat transfer paper from one side. If the transfer is not

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acceptable, you can cover it and transfer it several times; if there is a small

amount of broken lines, you can use a thin marker to draw on it (do not

use an oily marker to smear a large area and it will be difficult to clean up

later).

The copper-clad laminate should be completely cooled before it corrodes.

Otherwise, it is easy to drop ink.

Corrosion

Fill the etching tank with etchant solution, turn on the heating rod, and

heat the etching solution until the temperature reaches about 50 degrees;

do not exceed more than 60 degrees. Put the completely cooled CCL into

the corrosive solution. Turn on the air pump and let in air to accelerate the

reaction. The color change is seen where there is no ink, the copper foil is

corroded, and the substrate is exposed. When the ink is not corroded, it

can be taken out. If it is left for too long, the ink area may start from the

edge and slowly be eroded. 5. Remove the ink and clean it with a brush

dipped in alcohol or laser toner remover, brush off the toner, and then

clean with water.

Further processing

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Use an electric drill to make holes. Generally, use a drill with a diameter of

about 0.6mm for the pins. Be careful as the drill can break. A saw

can also be used for cutting.

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