Feeling suppressed? Hopefully your radiated emissions are.

Feeling suppressed? Hopefully your radiated emissions are.

This is the second in a three-part series discussing PCB design EMI reduction. In my previous blog post, I discussed different…

Contain the EMI Beast

Contain the EMI Beast

This is the first in a three-part series discussing PCB design EMI reduction. How can you tell if a fence…

Length matching for 10GHz links

Length matching for 10GHz links

For most busses, length-matching a group of signals to 5 mils is a bit of overkill.  But, if length-matching to…

DO sweat the small stuff

DO sweat the small stuff

My grandma always told me not to sweat the small stuff, and since she just celebrated her 100th birthday, I…

Hitting 100 ohms, the right way

Hitting 100 ohms, the right way

When designing the trace configuration for your differential pairs, you are typically targeting 100 ohms differential.  That means each trace…

The Future of Integrity

The Future of Integrity

I have recently been blogging about signal and power integrity, how the two are related, and how they can cross…

An Integrity Cocktail – Mixing SI and PI

An Integrity Cocktail – Mixing SI and PI

There are a lot of reasons to mix SI and PI analysis – trying to figure out a worst-case stimuli…

SI and PI – two flavors of Integrity

SI and PI – two flavors of Integrity

Power integrity (PI) is an analysis discipline that has been around for years.  Signal integrity (SI) has been around for a…

Back side cap mounting

Back side cap mounting

Earlier this year I wrote an article on maximizing capacitor effectiveness.  I have since received a number of inquiries on…