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>From: Bradley L. Mendenhall[SMTP:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, June 20, 1997 1:37 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Vcc power planes
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>Can anyone give me advice about using my power plane as a reference for
>high speed PC board traces? I have a colleague who claims this results
>in a noisy board and that you are better off connecting Vcc to chips using
>a tree type structure with bypass caps next to each Vcc pin. Every source
>I have read advocates using power planes as a reference plane or return
>path except for VERY high speed designs. Should I listen to him?
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>Thanks,
>
>Brad
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>BroadBand Technologies, Inc. Phone: (919)405-4682
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