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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] poll: burried/blind vias vs. pcb and pcb-rnd
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:04 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> In this day and age to say blind/buried vias are not needed is ridiculous.
>> The fact is ANY design that requires even one FPGA, custom ASIC or
>> medium to large BGA needs blind/buried vias.
>>
>> This is factual and is easy vetted.
>
> If you can afford a custom ASIC, you can afford a top-end EDA package,
> and a FAB that supports high-end features.  Frankly, PCB is not a
> high-end package and custom ASIC users are not our target audience.
>
> I can't afford any of that tech.  Heck, I can barely afford 4-layer
> boards with 6/6 rules.  There's a huge community of designers that
> can't (or won't) afford high tech features in their boards.
>
> So you can say "this is factual" but it's not.  It may be a
> requirement for a subset of our potential user base, but it's not
> ridiculous to assume that many people just aren't going to use them.
> Until we decide to support that tech, we're simply targetting the
> "many people" who don't need them.

Extra layers are not that expensive and most boards that care about
density at all blind vias can make layout a lot easier even if they
aren't absolutely required.  It seems like the major missing feature
in pcb to me, and a pretty good guess that people would use them if
they were available.

Britton