PCB Design Tips: The Introduction of L Special-shaped Board
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L special-shaped board upside-down jigsaw puzzle.
In actual production, there are L special-shaped boards, which can be rotated 180 degrees to increase the utilization rate of the boards and reduce costs. The conventional boarding methods include V-cut boards and stamp hole boards.The V-cut processing is linear, from one end of the V-cut to the other end, and it is necessary to pay attention not to the V-cut to the PCB circuit pattern when assembling the board.
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