From: [email protected]
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 01:04:34 PST
Rachild,
According to IPC -papers FR4 break voltage should be around
28kV/1mm=700V/mil.
I think the point is how homogenous the materials are, thickness changes in
lamination and possible 'gas-bubbles' in material, if we are talking about
MLB.
Regards,
Markku
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT rachild.chen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 6:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : 回复: [SI-LIST] : Parallel Plate Capacitance for
> Bypass
>
>
> Who can tell me how much the break voltage of 5 mils FR4
> is?We have do a
> test.It will be break under 1500V.
> 5 mils is the littlest thickness of FR4.How much is it to
> support a
> 1500V break voltage?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rachild
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 发件人: Jerry Johnson <[email protected]>
> 收件人: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> 日期: 2000年3月30日 9:55
> 主题: Re: [SI-LIST] : Parallel Plate Capacitance for Bypass
>
>
> >Ron,
> >
> >Could be we're missing each other somehow.
> >
> >What I saw was Steve say that 5 mils of FR4 would yield ~200
> pF/square
> >inch.
> >
> >Then I thought you said "So, by extension, 2.2 mil dielectric. . .
> >should be
> >about 1000pf/in sq for FR4 . . ."
> >
> >That looked to me like you had taken [(5^2)/(2.2)^2] * 200 = 1033
> >pF/square inch.
> >
> >I commented that capacitance wasn't an inverse square
> relationship with
> >distance
> >between plates. I calculated more like [5/2.2] * 200 = 455 pF/square
> >inch.
> >
> >Perhaps I completely misunderstood your reasoning. If so, I'm sorry.
> >
> >Jerry Johnson
> >
> >Ron Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
> >> maybe I am missing something or maybe we are not communicating
> >> well. The capacitance I am talking about would be an IC
> or a discrete
> >>
> >> device connected to power and ground. The capacitance would be
> >> somewhat limited by the quarterwave distance from that pin for any
> >> frequency of intrest, because above that distance the delay is too
> >> great for the capacitance to be of any effect.
> >>
> >> So, the 1 inch concern would roughly describe a circle
> with a 1/2 inch
> >>
> >> radius, which for FR4(velocity 170 ps/inch) or 85 ps.
> >>
> >> The frequency which has a quarterwavelength of 85 ps is
> 1/340ps=~3Ghz
> >> At 3 Ghz and below we get 200 pf per square inch, or about
> .27 ohms.
> >>
> >> Scaling from 3 Ghz, down in frequency we get higher Xc, but the
> >> effective
> >> capacitive area goes up. The limits are that several
> devices will be
> >> sharing
> >> the same capacitance and the board has dimensional limits
> so we must
> >> add capacitances. Scaling up in frequency, the effective
> capacitance
> >> goes
> >> down but so does the Xc.
> >>
> >> TRACES across a plane is an entirely different matter, and PLANE
> >> capacitance for the entire board is again a different matter.
> >>
> >> BOTTOM LINE:
> >> Capacitors below 200 pf in value are of little value for bypassing
> >> if you have 5 mil dielectric spacing power to ground.
> >>
> >> Ron Miller
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerald Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> > Ron,
> >> >
> >> > Capacitance of planes is NOT a function of inverse square of
> >> > distance.
> >> > See thread in this list about a week ago. Well covered there.
> >> >
> >> > Valid to use inverse square distance for point source, not for
> >> > planes.
> >> >
> >> > Result, capacitance would be about (5/2.2)*200 = 454.6 pF if the
> >> > 100 pF per in^2 at 5 mils is correct.
> >> >
> >> > Jerry Johnson
> >> > Teradyne Inc.
> >> >
> >> > >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:39:10 -0800
> >> > >From: Ron Miller <[email protected]>
> >> > >To: [email protected]
> >> > >Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Parallel Plate Capacitance for Bypass
> >> > >
> >> > >Thanks Steve, I knew it was somewhere around there.
> >> > >
> >> > >So, by extension, 2.2 mil dielectric, available at very
> little if
> >> > any
> >> > >extra cost should be about 1000pf/in sq for FR4
> >> > >and eliminatee the need for discrete capacitors below 1000 pf.
> >> > >
> >> > >ron
> >> > >
> >> > >"S. Weir" wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Ron,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> 5 mils should yield about 200pF / in sq, before
> taking away for
> >> > vias.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Regards,
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Steve.
> >> > >> At 02:30 PM 3/24/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> >
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