Copper Pour Clearance | PCB Routing

When is your copper pour too close to your traces? And is manufacturability the only way to answer this question? Zach Peterson opts instead to examine this question from a signal integrity and impedance perspective.

0:00 Intro
1:05 Manufacturability
1:55 Capacitance and Impedance
5:58 The 3W Rule (is overly conservative)

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