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3.5.3. PCIe* Add-in Card Edge Finger
Ensure that you do not place any inner-layer conductors, including ground or power planes, beneath the edge-fingers for a distance of 15 mils when supporting a PCIe Gen4 16.0 GT/s add-in card. You can add inner plane layers beneath any of the edge fingers, provided they extend no more than 2 mm into the edge finger region from the main routing area of the board and are at a minimum depth of 15 mils (0.38 mm) beneath the edge finger copper pads on the surface of the PCB.
Make sure that the distance between the top edge ground fingers and the bottom edge of the ground via pads does not exceed 15 mils for add-in-card ground fingers. Connect the adjacent ground edge-fingers at the lowered via location to improve the ground resonance.