(Sponsored) BGA PCB Design Tips - Phil's Lab #95

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Incorporate ball-grid array (BGA) ICs into your PCB designs, discussion on benefits/drawbacks, fanout, via/trace sizing, fine-pitch BGAs, and more! PCBs by PCBWay https://www.pcbway.com
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[TIMESTAMPS]
00:00 BGA Overview, Benefits, and Drawbacks
03:23 Example PCB

05:09 Altium Designer Free Trial (Ad)
05:36 PCBWay (Ad)

06:09 Manufacturing and Assembly Capabilities
08:14 Increasing Fabrication Costs

09:26 Fanout
12:00 Dog-bone Routing & Via Sizing
16:06 Power Fanout
18:24 Decoupling
20:28 Place ALL vias first!
21:48 0.5mm BGA Tips
24:35 Silkscreen
25:29 Vias as Testpoints

26:53 Additional Resources

27:59 Outro