Ok, I know I've asked these questions a thousand times but heres the final one(as I'm ready to send off for fab).
I have an approximately 20x2.5 pcb(actually 19.5x2.3). It is non-rectanular(sorta tapers) and consists of 2 layers with about 350
10mil(hole) vias. It has a total of 222 components. About 20 IC's in 32-pin QFN's and 1 28-pin TQFP. The rest are 402's and a few 603's and 805's. (might add a few larger bypass caps before I send). Traces are all around 10mil's with a few larger and I think none are smaller. I think all spacing is > 10mils.4pcb quotes me around 20-25$(depending on how I select a few variables such as copper thickness and "extra room", etc...) for 30-42.
This seems like a rather good deal from what I've seen. Most others won't even go up past about 14" to 15" so I'm kinda SOOL there anyways.
In any case, everything seems to look good from the quote. Anyone have any experience with this site as far as reputation and quality? I'm a bit worried because they kinda spammed my email when I registered and there site looks a little low quality.
Or anyone know of another fab that can do the size I need at around 20$ @ about 30-40? I was thinking that I could split the board in 2 halves but this is far from ideal. The biggest problem is that I would have to connect them back in a seemless way with some mechanical strength(with no significant change in the profile). While this isn't difficult the real challenge is being able to do this in the gerber files. (if I could simply cut them and drag the other half around then it wouldn't be an issue and I might go down that route)