From: Ritchey Lee ([email protected])
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 23:26:25 PDT
Lost contact with Chris Heard. Anyone who can help me get back in
contact?
Thanks,
Lee
Mark Gill wrote:
>
>
> Doug -
>
> From an EMC perspective, I've seen dense, 12 layer designs where power
> and ground have been separated by as many as two signal layers, with
> 50 MHz and greater clocks, and pass Class B (not to mention
> under-optimized decoupling capacitors). I don't think there is such a
> thing as a hard rule across the board, but rather specific rules are
> more appropriate to particular situations/designs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Gill, P.E.
> EMC/Safety/NEBS Design
> Nortel Networks - RTP, NC, USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug McKean [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:25 PM
> To: SI - List Discussion Group
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : Board Stackup - again ...
>
> What are the opinions of separating power and
> ground planes with a signal layer?
>
> Is it a *hard fast rule* that never shall they be separated?
> Are there some caveats conditions that allow separation?
>
> Assuming that everything except stackup remains the same,
> is there some significant measurable difference with say
> a digital board handling clocks around 40 MHz to 80 MHz
> and bus speeds of say PCI, and fsb of 133 (maybe even 200)
> and/or Ethernet with power and ground planes separated with
> a signal layer as opposed to one that has them adjacent?
>
> I've been of the opinion that power and ground planes should
> NEVER be separated, but lately, I'm not so sure about that.
>
> Comments?
>
> - Doug McKean
>
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