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Based on very little information and you just starting PCB layouts, you may be overthinking this problem or rightly concerned. There are a lot of fundamentals you might already know about how to m...
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Based on very little information and you just starting PCB layouts, you may be overthinking this problem or rightly concerned. There are a lot of fundamentals you might already know about how to make a capacitor and inductor using just a PCB trace and ground plane. Generally, ground planes are for products where high-speed or high-frequency signals exist. I highly recommend you look inside some Japanese products like an old DVD player or look online for some teardowns that include PCB designs. Here all the high-speed signals are properly taken care of and everything else has no ground plane and might even use a single-sided board with jumpers. So you many have over-designed it to not. We cannot assume where you have high speed signals. See my related answer here https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/293375 There is also a great tool called Saturn PCB Design Tool I recommend