USB Differential Pair Trace width and Spacing Calculation

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Hello , I am designing a PCB that is featuring USB , I know that the USB traces diff impedance should be 90 ohms. I am planning to manufacture the PCB at PCBWAY so I decided to use their calculator but as you can see in the photo when using the minimum allowed spacing , the width of the traces is so large for usual USB traces. Has anybody faced this problem before? Should I use Saturn PCB or any other calculator or is it better to stick to the manufacturer calculator? I know that there are different formulas and approximations that lead to different numbers but my question is how to solve this issue permanently?
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You've got a pretty thick dielectric there. Is this a two-layer board? Normally, you'd have, say, 10 mil height (0.254mm) in a multi-layer board. Different calculators will probably give you slightly different results, but not a lot. You can't change physics.
 

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It's actually a 4 layers board
 

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@FvM as @barry said it's just an impedance calculator app on PCBWAY (The manufacturer) and they don't specify the number of layers in the app.
 

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barry said:
That's not the stackup, that's the impedance calculating app.
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Yes, and the substrate height is wrong in the calculation input. It's for a 2-layer 1.6 mm board. You should enter the height of the outer layer, presuming you have a ground plane in layer 2.
 

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FvM said:
Yes, and the substrate height is wrong in the calculation input. It's for a 2-layer 1.6 mm board. You should enter the height of the outer layer, presuming you have a ground plane in layer 2.
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It’s quite possible that the layer spacing is, in fact, 1.6mm. there’s nothing to indicate that the overall board thickness is 1.6mm or 3.2mm or anything else. The OP should verify that they are using the right value, though.
 

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