On 3 Sep 98, Joy, Stephen C wrote: > What is the value of opening up real estate on a board? The value when you > hit a price point, like 6L to 4L or 6/6 to 8/8 is easy. What if you can > reduce all > passive pads by 10%, but the line widths don't change and the layer count > is the same? Steve - It's early Friday morning and I'm not awake yet. What do you mean by 6L to 4L? JoAnn L. Amerson Design Librarian Red Lion Controls, Inc. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Voice: (717) 767-6961 ext 6308 Thought for the day: To love what you do and feel that it matter--how could anything be more fun? -Catherine Graham ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################