Good morning,

I was hoping some of you experienced PCB designer would
share a few pearls of wisdom with me.

Our design team is ramping up for our next design and
there are some real concerns if everything will fit on the
board.

When a design is first initiated how do you determine the
proper amount of space versus layer count??
Right now we are using a 16.5 X 11.2 board, populated
both sides. Right now we're hoving at 10 -12 layers per
board. Is there some formula, methodology, metric, etc,etc
that actually works??

Right now would would like to keep the 16.5 X 11.2 size,
but if the board becomes so packed that it becomes a
nightmare to manufacture there is no gain in keeping
our current size.

thanks for the help
Dennis

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