-- [ From: Doug Jeffery * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --

On 9/8/95 Karl Sauter Wrote:

>Does there remain any reason to have thermal reliefs on vias (ie:
drilled hole size less than 0.016" diameter) ?

Karl,

We see between 10 and 30 new designs a week come in and I estimate that
30 to 40% of those do not have thermal relief on the via sizes.  This
design is being used by my customers and I have not hear any negative
feed back.  

I have not seen this used on technologies using more than 2 power and
ground planes, although I don't know why it would not apply there also.

Doug Jeffery
Electrotek