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Routing ground traces

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What are the things to take note of when routing ground traces on a PCB ?
 

Try having a multi-layer board. Make one of the planes ground so you can via down to the plane, that way you don't have to worry about making ground traces.
 

If its a 2 layer board, try to pour ground copper if you can't do that then make sure the traces are thick. Going 4 layers with a ground plane would be recommended but its not necessary for all designs.
 

Hai,

the track width of the Gnd track should be more, and make the free space in the PCBs are in to gnd copper, rout the gnd tracks as short, put more multiple vias to make the gnd path as short.

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R. Balasubramaniaraju
 

if you are routing a one layer board; then you need to make the traces connecting to the ground to be thicker. try to make all unused area in the board as ground copper area. try to make all traces connecitng to gnd as short as possible.
 

This is a little too broad questions.
-What kind of technology this PCB use, pure digital, Mixed Signal, Analog?
-What is your concern, noise, emi, etc?

In general.
-Avoid mixing analog ground with the digital ground, to avoid noise from digital getting into analog circuit. Tie them only at one point. It will be better for EMI to tie both ground in a very big piece as possible but make sure you already seperate aganlog and digital ground.

-For low layer board, pay a lot of attentention to maximize the ground area. Put ground tie vias to get some ground into the area.

-Use thick trace to connect components to ground.
 
Yes, this question is too broad. Actual design depends on what you need to do. Switching power supply will dramatically differ from GigaHertz RF front end. Try to read the books. Good authors are Henry Ott, Mark Montrose, Eric Bogatin, Howard Johnson and other. There are some different approach to grounding, for example star grounding. It is really not easy to chose right grounding and design a good layout.
 

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