A 1 Day Course with Ed Nakauchi
Course Outline
This course will teach the fundamentals of proper component placement, trace routing, and other constructional details to obtain board-level electromagnetic compatibility. These rules and guidelines will not only help in complying with EMC requirements,
but will also improve signal quality.
Introduction & Overview
- EMC Requirements
- Fundamentals of EMC
- Emissions & Immunity
- Reciprocity
PCB Basics
- Main propagators of noise
- Microstrip and Stripline
- Common mode & differential mode
- Multilayer Design
- Stackup assignment
- Trace corners
- Partitioning
- Grounding / Image plane
Bypassing & Decoupling
- Placement of capacitors
- Capacitor resonance and Capacitors in parallel
- Buried capacitance
- Selection of capacitor values
Clock circuits
- Localized ground
- Impedance matching
- Termination
- Crosstalk
- Routing / Vias
- Guard & Shunt traces
Interconnects & I/O
- Partitioning
- Isolation / Moating / Bridging
- A-to-D Partitioning
- Noise currents on I/O cables
- Filtering
- Grounding of I/O & BNC Connectors
- Video and Non-Video Filtering
Backplane & Daughtercards
- Field Coupling
- Interconnect
- Crosstalk
- Signal Routing
- Trace Length / Termination
- Ground Slots