From: Peterson, James F (FL51) ([email protected])
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 06:50:52 PDT
Barry,
You mention the ordinary plane cap (stackup configuration which puts pwr and
gnd planes close to each other). An excellent tip, but it isn't an effective
decoupler at frequencies lower than 100's of MHz. We still need a good mix
of "ordinary" caps, right?
best regards,
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Ma [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 6:45 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Bypassing of large fpga's
Thanks Mitch.
Bill,
We don't know what is the highest frequency your project has to treat. If
you guys "Thought about buried capacitance", it seems that you wanted to use
interplane capacitance to deal with that frequency. There two techniques for
plane cap:
(1) Standard Laminates. The plane spacing can be controlled to 4 - 10 mils.
(2) Buried Capacitance (BC). The spacing can reach to 2 mils.
If you are not ready for BC, you may consider the stackup of adjacent
pwr/gnd planes to apply ordinary plane cap.
No matter what plane-cap technique you apply, the number of bypass caps can
be reduced, and you don't have to be anxious about the precious real estate
on your PCB.
My 2 cents.
Regards,
Barry Ma
[email protected]
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On Fri, 02 June 2000, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> I'll second what Barry said, and add, most any bypassing scheme lends
> itself to using buried capacitive layers. If you were to just add the
> capacitive layers to your existing "power" planes, which may or may not
> be in close proximity to the "ground" planes, you'd enjoy the added
> capacitance value and probably some decrease in noise.
>
> References will be provided if required.
>
> Mitch
>
> ---------Included Message----------
> > Date: 2 Jun 2000 10:22:40 -0700
> > From: "Barry Ma" <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: "Barry Ma" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] : Re: [SI-LIST] Bypassing of large fpga's
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > I cannot understand what you said: "Thought about buried
capacitance, but our
> > power plane scheme doesn't lend itself to that." ... I don't think
it's a good
> > idea to separate the pwr and gnd planes. ...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Barry Ma
> > [email protected]
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