PCB design calculators
Practical calculators for PCB trace current, impedance, vias, spacing and geometry.
Current and thermal
Power-path voltage drop
Calculate voltage drop through traces and vias, including the return path, and find the width needed.
Trace current and width
Estimate trace current for an allowed temperature rise, or find the width needed for your current.
Via properties
Via current, barrel resistance, capacitance, inductance, impedance and thermal resistance.
Fusing current
Estimate the current that will melt a copper conductor for a given pulse time.
Thermal management
Junction temperature from thermal resistance and power dissipation.
Impedance and signal integrity
Trace delay and length matching
Compare route and package delays, check skew and calculate the extra length needed.
Bandwidth and trace length
Signal bandwidth and the trace length at which transmission-line effects matter.
Microstrip and stripline
Impedance, target width or gap, manufacturing tolerances and propagation delay.
Differential pairs
Differential impedance, odd and even modes, coupling and near-end crosstalk.
Effective dielectric constant
Effective dielectric constant for a microstrip line, including thickness and dispersion.
Crosstalk (experimental)
Order-of-magnitude near-end crosstalk estimate for parallel traces.
Via stubs and differential vias
Differential via impedance, stub resonance, maximum stub length and back-drill depth.
Wavelength
Guided wavelength from frequency, period and effective dielectric constant.
Passives and RF
Ohm's law
V/I/R/P, LED bias, series and parallel passives, and Pi/T attenuators.
Reactance
Capacitive and inductive reactance, plus LC resonant frequency.
Crystal load and frequency tolerance
Frequency tolerance in hertz or parts per million, and crystal load-capacitor values.
Planar inductor
Inductance of square, hexagonal, octagonal and circular planar spirals.
PDN
Target impedance, plane capacitance and a decoupling network impedance plot.
Geometry and manufacturing
Reference
Manufacturer stack-ups
Find JLCPCB and PCBWay stack-ups, including two-layer presets, and fill in calculator inputs.
Conversion
Distance, temperature, dB, dBm, polar and angular conversions.
Reference tables
Copper weights, plating, laminate values, wire gauge and mechanical tables.
Mechanical information
Wire gauge, drill and screw thread reference tables.