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From: Norman Wong <[email protected]>
To: "F.Hart" <[email protected]>, Signal Integrity <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: More on Ground Planes
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Reply to: RE>More on Ground Planes
Hi Frances:
I met a professor in one of the signal integrity symposium and he developed an analysis tool which handles a lot of cases, among them, discontinue ground plane. You may want to contact him. Here is his company's address:
Henri Mekelo, Director
Ultrahigh Speed Digital Electronics.
U of Illinois
1406 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
email: [email protected]
I have no affiliate with him. Good Luck.
Norman Wong
Northern Telecom (Nortel)
Wireless Development Center, Calgary
[email protected]
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial question. Here's more
info on what I meant by ground plane discontinuity:
1. The edge of the microstrip ground plane runs parallel to (and directly
below) the edge of the first conductor.
_________ _________
________|_______|_______|_______|___________ Conductors
|___________________________________________| Dielectric
|___________________________________| Ground
2. The discontinuity is random (ie. a conductor passing over a via/solder
ball well in the ground plane).
3. The discontinuity is regular (ground plane mesh).
4. The ground plane stops at some length short of the end of the microstrip
(ie extra long leads/tails).
(I'll deal with voltage disparaties some other day).
It has been my experience that most solvers idealize the ground plane. I'm
just doing a reality check based on simplified problems which represent
real situations. Hopefully this may develop into a technical paper.
Frank Yuan: you mentioned several papers which are not yet published, but
sound very helpful. Specifically, references 5 (for a different problem I'm
working on) & 6 should be very interesting. Is it possible you could Fax a
copy to me? I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you again, to all. And keep that good input flowing! Have a great
weekend.
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