Yoda’s advice applies just as well to some aspect of circuit board design as it does to mastering the Force. There are many myths and myth-conceptions about the best design practices for circuit board layout which are “legacy code”. They have been with us in training manuals, in examples, and in reference designs. Once inserted into a design, everyone seems to think it must be the right way of doing design. I will show you five myth-conceptions and why you should unlearn what you have learned as a recommended design feature, such as using copper pours, power planes, avoiding 90 deg bends, three different value decoupling capacitors, and using split ground planes.



00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:30 - The Most Important Idea Behind PCB Design
00:05:10 - Power Integrity in Interconnect Performance
00:06:00 - Switching Noise on the Power Rail
00:09:43 - Decoupling Capacitor
00:11:45 - Measuring Switching Noise and Utilizing a Decoupling Capacitor
00:25:50 - Selecting Decoupling Capacitors
00:35:20 - Selecting Capacitor Values in PDN Design
00:40:15 - Copper Pour After Routing
00:54:08 - Conclusion
00:55:29 - Q&A

Speaker Bio:
Eric Bogatin is currently the Dean of the Teledyne LeCroy Signal Integrity Academy (https://bethesignal.com/bogatin/). Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado - Boulder in the ECEE department. Eric received his BS in physics from MIT and additionally an MS and PhD in physics from the University of Arizona - Tucson. He has held senior engineering and management positions at Bell Labs, Raychem, Sun Microsystems, Ansoft, and Interconnect Devices. He's also written six technical books in the field and presented classes and lectures on signal integrity around the world. In 2011, his company, Bogatin Enterprises, which he founded with his wife Susan in 1990 was acquired by Teledyne LeCroy. After concluding his live public classes in 2013, he devoted his efforts to creating the Signal Integrity Academy, a web portal to provide all his classes and training content online, for individuals and companies.


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