Patent ID: 8294037

Claim:
A method for arranging a component on a circuit board, the method comprising: providing at least one cutout in the circuit board such that a component area of the circuit board is physically separated from a remaining area of the circuit board except along either one straight borderline delimiting the component area from the remaining area of the circuit board, or several straight borderlines delimiting the component area from the remaining area of the circuit board, the several straight borderlines being arranged on a common straight line, and mounting the component on the component area of the circuit board such that the component is placed on the component area, wherein the component area has substantially the same size as a footprint of the component, and wherein the circuit board comprises a multi-layer circuit board comprising several conductive layers and non-conductive substrate layers, the number of conductive layers in the component area being lower than the number of conductive layers in the remaining area.