I am designing a board with a 50ohm impedance antenna track and I'm having a little difficulty with the terminology.
Am I trying to use AppCAD to confirm my track impedance but I'm not sure which calculator to use as it offers Microstrip, Stripline and Colplanar Waveguide.
Is there an idiots guide to what setup is classed as what?
Am I right in thinking Stripline is a track on an internal layer with planes above and below?
Is a Microstrip a track above a plane with nothing to the sides and a Coplanar Waveguide a track with a plane below and to the sides?
My board setup is four layers, signal track on the top layer, ground, power then signal below. I have, where possible, ground either side on the top layer. Is this classed as Coplanar or Microstrip?
I am using Altium and it has calculated a track width of 0.866mm, however if I put this into either Coplanar or Microstrip in AppCAD I get ~25ohms
Is this due to it only using two layers? Does this matter?
Not sure what's right or wrong here