Intel® 820E Chipset
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Design Guide 181
5.1.7. Testing Board Impedance
The Intel Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Test Methodology document (order# 298179-001) should be used
to ensure boards are within the 28 +/- 10% requirement. This document can be found at
http://developer.intel.com.
5.1.8. Board Impedance/Stack-up Summary
1. 7628 cloth (1-ply, 0.007 inch when cured with 40% resin) is the most popular and highest-volume in
PCB production today. This stack-up will make routing impossible.
Fab construction (4 layers)
Zo = 70 ± 15%
Figure 99. 7 mil Stack-Up (Not Routable)
7mil_stackup
Total thickness
= 62 mils
Not Routable
Component-side layer: 0.5 oz. Cu
Ground layer 2: 1 oz. Cu
7-mil prepreg
Ground layer 3: 1 oz. Cu
Solder-side layer 4: 0.5 oz. Cu
7-mil prepreg
2. 2116 cloth (1-ply, 0.0045 inch when cured with 53% resin) is the second-highest-volume cloth in
production today. Because of the impedance and layout requirements of traces for Direct RDRAM,
AGP 2.0, and the hub interface, this stack-up is recommended for Intel 820E chipset platform design.
Fab construction (4 layers)
Zo = 60 ± 10%
Figure 100. 4.5 mil Stack-Up
4.5mil_stackup.vsd
Total thickness
= 62 mils

~48-mil core

Component-side layer: 0.5 oz. Cu
Ground layer 2: 1 oz. Cu
4.5-mil prepreg
Ground layer 3: 1 oz. Cu
Solder-side layer 4: 0.5 oz. Cu
4.5-mil prepreg