High-density multilayer circuit board under engineering inspection

Order HDI, RF and high-layer-count boards with the risk reviewed first.

Illuminious is a U.S. NPI engineering company. Advanced PCB & PCBA covers HDI, microvia, controlled-impedance, heavy-copper and rigid-flex construction, configured online and planned by an engineer. Engineered in San Francisco. Prototype builds, DFM and mass production in our own factory in Shenzhen. Upload your files, get a free engineering review, and pay only the official quote that review publishes.

Describe the stack-up, impedance, via structure, copper and inspection depth in one versioned project. An engineer plans the process before any price becomes official.

Configure it online, or send the job to an engineer. Online, you get a live supplier price, a published tier, or an official quote prepared by a specialist within 24 hours on business days, depending on the service. Engineering review is free either way and comes before you pay.

Payment: Official price after free review
Review target: Within 24 hours on business days after you submit

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No CAD yet? Our design team can take it from a sketch or a spec.

An engineer reviews every order. Account required before the persistent configurator opens. Engineering review is free and comes before payment, and payment does not authorize production.

Do you need Advanced instead of Standard PCB and PCBA?

HDI and microvia boards
Controlled-impedance and RF designs
High-layer-count or heavy-copper work
Rigid-flex and dense advanced assembly

Typical orders: Engineering-led prototypes and controlled production; every build requires technical approval.
Source files: Gerbers, stack-up and impedance information; BOM and placement files for PCBA.
Accepted formats: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TXT, GBR, GER, GTL, GBL, GTS, GBS, GTO, GBO, GTP, GBP, GKO, GM1, GML, G1, G2, GD1, DRL, XLN, BRD, SCH, PCBDOC, KICAD_PCB, KICAD_SCH, POS, XY, CSV, XLS, XLSX, BOM, DXF, DWG
Payment basis: Official price after free review
Preparation workbook: Download the intake workbook

A shared order lifecycle with service-specific depth.

The configurator collects the factors that drive a responsible preliminary amount. Engineering then reviews the exact source revision, assumptions, and approvals that control release.

Stack-up control

Capture layer structure, laminate family, outer and inner copper, dielectric intent, and supplied stack-up evidence.

Signal integrity

Record impedance targets, critical nets, RF context, and constraints that must survive fabrication planning.

Advanced interconnect

Describe blind or buried vias, microvias, sequential lamination, backdrill, press-fit, and related yield drivers.

Inspection depth

Define advanced AOI, X-ray, reporting, and assembly requirements as part of the reviewed order scope.

What can you configure for advanced PCB and PCBA work?

These are the ranges the Advanced PCB/PCBA configurator accepts. Anything outside them is still orderable — it goes to an engineer through the outlined path instead of through the form.

Advanced PCB & PCBA configurator bounds
Parameter	Accepted range
Board width	5–600 mm
Board height	5–600 mm
Board quantity	1–50,000 boards
Smallest via diameter	0.05–0.50 mm
Placements per board	0–10,000 placements

Detail pages for each Advanced PCB/PCBA route.

Each one covers the capability bounds, the pricing factors, and what engineering checks for that specific process or ordering context — and opens the configurator with it already selected.

Advanced PCB capabilities

Advanced PCB & PCBA limits: which microvia, impedance and rigid-flex builds the configurator takes, and which an engineer plans before pricing.

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How is an advanced board price built?

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Lead time, and what each tier trades

Economy: A longer target lead time than Standard, for work that is not on a deadline. Takes a discount line off the price, never below the service minimum, shown before you commit.
Standard: The lead-time range quoted for your configuration, counted from approved files. No schedule charge. It is the price you were quoted.
Express: Shortens the standard range where the process and the queue allow it. Adds an expedite line, priced on your own configuration and shown before you commit.

Layer count, board area, laminate family, and copper construction
Via technology, lamination cycles, backdrill, press-fit, and controlled impedance
Assembly density, inspection depth, test, and documentation
Quantity, material availability, yield risk, and requested lead time

Priced live. Engineering review is free and happens before payment, so nothing is charged to reach this figure. Priced live from supplier quotes when suppliers can price the build, including power, heavy-copper and high-layer boards of up to 14 layers, and HDI boards of 4 to 14 layers with up to 3 oz copper, 50 to 300 mm on the longer side and 50 to 200 mm on the shorter side, and up to 100 boards. On HDI boards, laminate Tg, impedance control and a supplied stack-up are confirmed at engineering review and are not included in the preview. Other HDI builds, rigid-flex, blind, buried or laser-drilled microvias, backdrill, sequential lamination, custom stack-ups on other boards, RF, low-loss or polyimide laminates, more than 14 layers, assembly, and anything a supplier does not price at the moment are quoted by a specialist within 24 hours on business days. Engineering review confirms the vendor quote before payment.

What engineering reviews

Customer approvals may include

Official stack-up and controlled feature interpretation
Any material equivalent or yield-driven geometry change
Production file and any commercial revision

Stack-up completeness and material availability
Impedance, microvia, lamination, backdrill, and press-fit feasibility
Copper balance, drill structure, registration, and yield risk
Assembly access, BGA/QFN inspection, and production-file requirements

Free review first. Keep every later decision explicit.

Create your account
Verify your email before the persistent quote workspace opens. Every file, estimate, message, and payment stays attached to that account.
Configure and upload
Provide service-specific inputs and place technical files in private project storage. Saved drafts remain available across sessions.
Free engineering review
Submit the configured cart at no charge. A reviewer checks the exact file and specification revision, then prices it or opens a documented question or correction request.
Official quote
Review publishes an itemized quote with lead time and a validity window. That is the binding figure; anything shown earlier was a preliminary estimate.
Accept and pay
Accepting opens payment rather than charging you. Lead time is counted from settled payment, and any later itemized revision needs your approval first.
Produce and deliver
After all commercial, technical, and customer gates are complete, the project moves through the service-specific production or design milestones.

What this service is intended to produce.

An engineer-approved advanced fabrication package, controlled production assumptions, and optional assembly with the agreed inspection evidence.

Related engineering: DFM services

Protected and traceable by default

Private files, immutable revisions, authenticated approvals, itemized commercial changes, and customer-visible history are part of the order system rather than a loose email trail.

Boundaries

The calculator is not a stack-up approval
Material equivalents are never assumed silently
Complex interconnect features remain subject to yield and capability review

Answers before you start the workspace.

When should I use Advanced instead of Standard PCB/PCBA?

Use Advanced for HDI, blind or buried vias, microvias, RF or low-loss material, heavy copper, high layer counts, rigid-flex, backdrill, press-fit, or other constraints that need deeper process planning.

Does the price approve my stack-up?

No. The price covers the declared configuration. The free engineering review confirms the stack-up, material, impedance approach, production file and any required revision.

How do price changes work?

The free engineering review comes first. Depending on the service you see a live supplier price, a published fixed price, or a price from a specialist within 24 hours on business days, and nothing is charged when you submit. After the review we publish an official quote with an itemized total, lead time and a validity window, and that is the amount you are asked to pay. Accepting the official quote opens payment rather than charging you. If a later correction changes scope or price, you see an itemized revision and can approve, question or decline it. We never silently charge an increase.

How are my files protected?

Your technical files are stored in private project storage and accessed through short-lived authenticated links. Files, prices, replacements and approvals stay tied to your account and keep their revision history.

Start the Advanced PCB/PCBA price in your private workspace.

Your account preserves drafts, uploads, assumptions, estimate revisions, payments, review questions, and approvals in one project record. An engineer reviews every order.