Testing High Speed Design Considerations on Printed Circuit Boards #PCB #Hackaday @Hackaday

Testing Myths of High-Speed PCB Design

Designing circuit boards for high speed applications requires special considerations. High speed design is about EM fields not electrons.

This you already know, but what exactly do you need to do differently from common board layout? Building on impedance in 2 layer Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs, Bil Herd talks about high speed design techniques as they relate to PCBs.  This is the world of multi-layer PCBs and where the impedance of both the Power Delivery Network (PDN) and the integrity of the signals themselves (Signal Integrity or SI) become very important factors.

The article discussing Bil’s testing is on Hackaday and the accompanying video is below. May we all get to use such test equipment!

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1 Comment

  1. Bryce Wilson
    February 7, 2019 at 9:12 am

    Bil is a LEGEND. Good stuff!

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