Nb8511-pcb-mb-v4 Boardview Link

She took the mouse and toggled off the top and bottom copper layers. They were left with the two inner layers: green and dark blue. On the boardview, these were data and power planes. She traced the path around C442. The positive via dropped to the inner green layer—the main 3.3V plane. The negative via dropped to the dark blue layer—the main ground plane. Separate, as they should be.

Dev leaned in. On the boardview, the two planes showed as overlapping translucent shapes, creating a muddy brownish color. He’d always assumed that was a rendering artifact. nb8511-pcb-mb-v4 boardview

“It’s like having a map of a city with no street names,” her lab partner, Dev, grumbled, rubbing his eyes. They’d been at it for fourteen hours. The boardview showed the physical location of every resistor, capacitor, and via on the four-layer PCB. But without the netlist—the logical connections—it was just a pretty picture of silkscreen and copper. She took the mouse and toggled off the