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Pommie said:I try and keep power rails fat wherever possible.
Here's a board I hand routed Yesterday. The red traces will be jumpers.
Mike.
Boncuk said:Hi Pommie,
English doesn't seem to be English. I always thought talking about jumpers the small things (two or three pins) with a 0.1inch pitch are jumpers. An ordinary wire bridge is also a jumper?
BTW, I missed the decoupling capacitors near both IC power pins.
Boncuk said:BTW, I missed the decoupling capacitors near both IC power pins.
I recall taking undergrad physics from a grad student who command of english was very poor. The world is getting smaller and we all have to live with itBoncuk said:Hi 3v0,
please excuse me. I have some trouble understanding what the word 'jumper' means. On your layout I could detect just two of them. There are two more red traces, but they are supposedly not called jumpers, are they?![]()
The RED lines are all jumpers. In this case wires soldered to the top side of the board.
May be I misunderstood the explanation of the term as given by Torben, but I assumed a jumper is something straight on a PCB.
He gave a very broad definition of jumper. In this case (and most PCB related) wires (not traces) used to jump over traces are jumpers. If you have two pins on a header and you connect them together with a shorting block that is often called a jumper too, but it may be best to think of it as a shorting block. In my layout there are 6 solder jumpers. These act like the shorting block but there are no pins. Just a small gap that you can bridge with solder.
How should a foreigner learn good English if everybody has his own interpretation of technical terms?![]()
Hans