“Overlap,” Maya whispered.
“It’s like having a map of a city with no street names,” her lab partner, Dev, grumbled, rubbing his eyes. They’d been at it for fourteen hours. The boardview showed the physical location of every resistor, capacitor, and via on the four-layer PCB. But without the netlist—the logical connections—it was just a pretty picture of silkscreen and copper. nb8511-pcb-mb-v4 boardview
Dev leaned in. On the boardview, the two planes showed as overlapping translucent shapes, creating a muddy brownish color. He’d always assumed that was a rendering artifact. “Overlap,” Maya whispered
“Or,” Maya said, a new thought crystallizing, “the boardview is right, and we’re misreading the layer stack-up.” ” her lab partner
