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My answer from another place: - It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side. But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then do...

posted 20h ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 20h ago by Andy aka‭

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#3: Post edited by user avatar Andy aka‭ · 2025-02-03T09:50:20Z (about 20 hours ago)
  • My answer from another place: -
  • It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side.
  • But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then **do whatever you can to minimize the track lengths on the ground side**. I would say from experience in answering this type of question on this site that you have almost certainly (a probability thing) not minimized the track lengths on the ground side so, please do so.
  • Work on the top layer tracks and do what you can. If necessary go from top to bottom then back to top then, back to bottom and then back to top to keep the ground-plane as uncluttered as possible.
  • If you are going to group tracks, keep the group small and leave a good amount of ground plane between adjacent track-groups.
  • [My answer](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/737845/20218) from another place: -
  • It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side.
  • But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then **do whatever you can to minimize the track lengths on the ground side**. I would say from experience in answering this type of question on this site that you have almost certainly (a probability thing) not minimized the track lengths on the ground side so, please do so.
  • Work on the top layer tracks and do what you can. If necessary go from top to bottom then back to top then, back to bottom and then back to top to keep the ground-plane as uncluttered as possible.
  • If you are going to group tracks, keep the group small and leave a good amount of ground plane between adjacent track-groups.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Andy aka‭ · 2025-02-03T09:49:47Z (about 20 hours ago)
  • My answer from the other place: -
  • It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side.
  • But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then **do whatever you can to minimize the track lengths on the ground side**. I would say from experience in answering this type of question on this site that you have almost certainly (a probability thing) not minimized the track lengths on the ground side so, please do so.
  • Work on the top layer tracks and do what you can. If necessary go from top to bottom then back to top then, back to bottom and then back to top to keep the ground-plane as uncluttered as possible.
  • If you are going to group tracks, keep the group small and leave a good amount of ground plane between adjacent track-groups.
  • My answer from another place: -
  • It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side.
  • But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then **do whatever you can to minimize the track lengths on the ground side**. I would say from experience in answering this type of question on this site that you have almost certainly (a probability thing) not minimized the track lengths on the ground side so, please do so.
  • Work on the top layer tracks and do what you can. If necessary go from top to bottom then back to top then, back to bottom and then back to top to keep the ground-plane as uncluttered as possible.
  • If you are going to group tracks, keep the group small and leave a good amount of ground plane between adjacent track-groups.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Andy aka‭ · 2025-02-03T09:49:28Z (about 20 hours ago)
My answer from the other place: - 

It's best to use a 4 layer board looking at the tracks you have on your ground-plane side.

But, if you are really insistent on using only two layers (why?) then **do whatever you can to minimize the track lengths on the ground side**. I would say from experience in answering this type of question on this site that you have almost certainly (a probability thing) not minimized the track lengths on the ground side so, please do so.

Work on the top layer tracks and do what you can. If necessary go from top to bottom then back to top then, back to bottom and then back to top to keep the ground-plane as uncluttered as possible.

If you are going to group tracks, keep the group small and leave a good amount of ground plane between adjacent track-groups.