High Frequency Board – RF pool
Eurocircuits’ RF pool High Frequency Board service offers the cost benefits of order-pooling to designers of RF PCBs. RF pool covers a broad spectrum of technology including 2 types of material, 2- and 4-layer PCBs and a range of build-up options including mixed RF and FR4, all at acceptable prices. For other RF requirements, upload your data via the Ask for quotation box for our engineers to evaluate.
What do you get?
- A clear one page smart menu for fast ordering RF PCBs
- 2 & 4 layers, from 1 piece onwards
- Isola I-TERA at pooling prices; Rogers 4000 series non-pooled
- 100µm – 4mil technology boards at pooling prices; 0.090 – 3 mil non-pooled
- Fully-finished with 2 solder-masks and 1 or 2 silk-screens
- Lead-free finish: electroless gold over nickel (ENIG or Che Ni/Au)
- 100% manufacturability check prior to production
- 100% electrical test on all boards
- PCB Configurator to check and upload design parameters before pricing
- PCB Visualizer and PCB Checker analysis before you place your order. (from your order basket)
- No tooling charges
- No minimum order charge
- Direct online price-calculation and ordering
How to get prices and place orders?
- Log in and go to Calculate and order/RF pool.
- Select Price calculator to enter all details manually or Analyse your data to get PCB Configurator to Analyse your data and enter the design parameters into the Price calculator menu.
- The menu displays the default values for the service. If your design conforms to these values, just enter the number of boards and delivery that you need at the top of the page, plus the number of layers and the board size. You will see the price requested and some alternative options at once.
- If you need other options select what you need from the rest of the menu. The smart menus will guide you towards optimum manufacturability and best price.
- Attach files and place your order in the shopping basket. The PCB Visualizer analysis starts running right away. Open PCB Visualizer to check the results, and if everything is ok, checkout to place your order.
How do we keep RF pool prices down?
Eurocircuits are specialist manufacturers of prototype and small batch PCBs. We are experts in order-pooling. Placing different orders on a standard production pooling panel minimizes set-up and production costs so you get good prices and no tooling charges. Because of the large numbers of orders we receive daily, we can offer a large number of technological options in our pooling services. We do a 100% check on your data before manufacture to make sure that you get the boards you want.
Help from the Eurocircuits community!
ChipDesign a Belgian Eurocircuits customer is specialized in IC design and turn-key RF solutions: Antennas and antenna arrays, FPGA design, Packaged MMICs, PCB design, PDK development, Power amplifiers and SSPA transmitters. In the field of RF, ChipDesign has developed a general-purpose RF/microwave library for CadSoft Eagle, which it offers free-of-charge. It can be downloaded here.
RF pool service parameters | |
Number of layers | Pooled – 2 & 4 Non-Pooled – 1,6,8,10,12,14,16 |
Maximum PCB dimension | 355mm x 500mm for ML 425mm x 580mm for 2L |
Minimum PCB dimension | 5mm x 5mm |
Base material | I-TERA Tg 200°C Rogers – R04350 Tg 280°C |
Board thickness – 2 layer | 0.250mm & 0.500mm Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Board thickness – 4 layer | 1.00mm & 1.55mm Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Baoard thickness – 6, 8, 10, 12. 14 & 16 layer | 1.55mm Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Base copper foil– outer layers | Pooled – 12µm/⅓oz, 18µm/½oz, 35µm/1oz Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Base copper foil– inner layers | Pooled – 18µm/½oz. 35µm/1oz Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Surface finish | Pooled – ENIG (Chemical Ni/Au) Semi-Pooled – Immersion silver (Ag) Non-Pooled – LF HAL |
Soldermask type/colour | Pooled – Green Non-Pooled – Red, Blue, Black White, Transparent, PixtureBlackWhite |
Extra options | Pooled – Peelable mask, Via filling, Heatsink Paste Hard-gold fingers Semi Pooled – Gold Edge Connectors Non -Pooled – carbon pads |
Legend colour | Pooled – White Non-Pooled – Black, WhitePIL |
Min. track width/spacing | Pooled – 0.100mm Non-Pooled – 0.090mm |
Min. finished hole size | PTH – 0.100mm NPTH – 0.200mm Non-Pooled – others available in the online calculator |
Minimum outer layer pad diameter = finished hole size + listed value | PTH – 0.300mm NPTH -0.200mm |
Minimum inner layer pad diameter = finished hole size + listed value | PTH – 0.350mm NPTH -0.250mm |
Minimum copper to board-edge clearance – outer layers | Routed – 0.250mm V-cut – 0.450mm |
Minimum copper to board-edge – inner layers | Routed – 0.400mm V-cut – 0.450mm |
Copper options | Copper up to edge, plated holes on edge, round-edge plating |
Slots and cut-outs | Tool sizes – 0.5, 1.2 & 2.0mm |
Delivery panels (customer panels) | Break-routed with 2 mm tool or V-cut |
Maximum customer panel that can be eC-compatible | Pooled – 350 x 250mm |
Multilayer-build | eC-type 8 For specials request a quotation |
Electrical test | Standard |
UL marking | Not yet available |
Stencil material | 100µm and 130µm stainless steel |
Maximum stencil size | 595mm x 595mm |
The RF pool service starts with default values, as described in this article
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