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MultiLayer PCB
To increase the area available for the wiring even more, these kind of PCBs have one or more conductor pattern inside the board. This is achieved by gluing (laminating) several Double Sided boards together with insulating layers in between. The number of layers is referred to as the number of separate conductor patterns. It is usually even and includes the two outer layers. Majority of boards have between 4 and 8 layers, but PCBs with almost 100 layers can also be made.
Large super computers often contain boards with plenty of layers, but since it is becoming more efficient to replace such computers with clusters of ordinary PCs, PCBs with a very high layer count are less and less used. Since the layers in a PCB are laminated together, it is often difficult to actually tell how many there are, but if you inspect the side of the board closely you might be able count them.
The vias described in the section of Double Sided PCBs always penetrate the whole board. When there are multiple layers of conductor patterns, and you only want to connect some of them, such vias waste space that could be used to route other wires. 'Buried ' and 'Blind ' vias avoid this problem because they only penetrate as many layers as necessary. Blind vias connect one or more of the inner layers with one of the surface layers without penetrating the whole board. Buried vias only connect inner layers. It is therefore not possible so see such vias by just looking at the surface of the PCB.
In multi-layer PCBs whole layers are almost always dedicated to Ground and Power. We therefore classify the layers as Signal, Power or Ground planes. Sometimes there is more than one of both Power and Ground planes, especially if the different components on the PCB require different supply voltages.
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