PCB proto – the idea!

Eurocircuits offers its customers a simple, no fuss, fast prototyping service. Your data is analyzed and once we have checked that your data complies with our technical spec, the board goes in production.
We ignore the options typically needed for series production (peelable masks, via-filling, specific finish, soldermask colours, etc.) as these are not usually crucial for making a functional prototype. This way we can achieve fast deliveries at attractive prices.

What do you get?

  • 1 ,2, 3, 4 or 5 PCB’s in 2 or 3 working days – 2 or 4 layers
  • Fully-finished with 2 solder-masks and 2 silk-screen
  • Lead-free finish (choice of electroless nickel immersion gold or lead-free HAL)
  • FR-4 – RoHS compliant material optimised for lead-free soldering with standard build-up (see also our blog about materials and lead-free soldering)
  • No tooling charges. No minimum order charge.
  • 100% manufacturability check prior to production
  • PCB Configurator to check and upload design parameters before pricing or
  • PCB Visualizer and PCB Checker analysis before you place your order. (from your order basket)

How to get prices and place orders?

  • Log in and go to Calculate and PCB proto.
  • 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.
  • Enter quantity and delivery required plus number of layers and dimensions.  That’s it – nothing more. You see the price at once.
  • 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.

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Not yet signed up to Eurocircuits and our other low-cost online services?
You can calculate a price on our public price calculator, but to use the PCB Visualizer analysis and to place orders you need to sign up.

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How do we keep PCB proto 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.  For “PCB proto” we use newly-developed automated design analysis algorithms.  These allow us to cut board verification costs and still do 100% check on your data before manufacture to make sure that you get the boards you want.

PCB proto service parameters

Number of layers

2, 4

Quantities

1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 PCB’s

Delivery terms

2 or 3 working days

Maximum PCB dimensions

500mm x 425mm for 4-layer

580mm x 425mm for 1L and 2L

Maximum customer panel that can be eC-compatible

350mm x 250mm

Minimum dimensions

20mm x 20mm for PCB’s

50mm x 50mm for panels

Base material

FR-4IMP –  Td>=325°C, T260>=60’, T288>=10’,  CTEz=<3.5%, Tg>=150°C

Board thickness

1.55mm

Base copper foil– outer layers

18µm/½oz

Base copper foil– inner layers

35µm/1oz

Surface finish

Any Lead-free (our choice of the ENIG or HAL)

Hot-air levelling (HAL)

Electroless gold over nickel (ENIG)

Soldermask type/colour

Green

Extra options

None

Legend colour

White

Min. track width/spacing

0.150mm

Min. finished hole size

PTH – 0.250mm

NPTH – 0.350mm

Minimum outer layer pad diameter = finished hole size + listed value

PTH – 0.350mm

NPTH – 0.250mm

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

Minimum copper to board-edge – inner layers

Routed 0.400mm

Slots and cut-outs

Tool Sizes  – 0.5mm, 1.2mm and 2.0mm

Delivery panels

Break routing – 2.0mm or V-cut

Multilayer-build

 Standard – no option for blind and buried via

Electrical test

Standard for all boards

UL marking

Available

Stencil material

100µm and 130µm stainless steel

Maximum stencil size

595 x 595 mm

The PCB proto calculator starts with default values, these are described in this article. Changing the defaults will  refer you to the STANDARD pool service

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PCB proto

1, 2 or 5 PCB’s in 2 or 3 working days

STANDARD pool

FR-4 lead-free soldering compatible material up to 16 layers

RF pool

Isola I-TERA and Rogers 4000 series material

SEMI-FLEX pool

4 layer, 100 micron FR4 core with two specially treated copper layers

IMS pool

Single layer Insulated Metal Substrate PCBs (ALU)

BINDI pool

Medium volume boards from our new plant in India