A New Method for Calculating the Copper Coverage of PCB

Abstract:

This paper introduces a new method to obtain the copper coverage of PCB. Board-level simulation is very important in the thermal analysis and reliability design of electronic equipment. While in the process of PCB modeling, it is difficult to obtain the coverage percentage of copper in the PCB layer. By this method, the calculation of the coverage is converted to MATLAB image processing problems, is more simple than the traditional methods and the precision is higher, with strong practical.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 462)
• Pages: 129-134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.462.129
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Min Jiang, Cheng Gao, Jiao Ying Huang, Gui Cui Fu, Ying Cheng
• Keywords: Copper Coverage, PCB, Reliability, Thermal Analysis, Thermal Design

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