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Andrew Zonenberg

New revision IBC board came in!

This design switches from a buck topology to a charge pump and should cut about 2.5W off the idle power consumption, greatly improving low load efficiency.

It also switches from a 2 layer board to 4, helping it shrink the PCB size by about 40% vs the previous design.

Probably won't have time to assemble tonight since I'm still doing firmware for the interface test board.

Bare blue PCB densely covered in gold plated component footprints. Just to the right is a second board covered in solder from factory testing of the board finish. To the top, a cross section potted in resin can be seen.
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Andrew Zonenberg

Took a quick look at the cross section. Higher res scan going now.

PCB cross section showing a via and top and bottom signal layers plus two internal layers
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