Realised again that some of my electronics tinkering followers may not have watched this incredible talk. It fundamentally changed the way I think about power and signals in circuits. "Where is the energy in a PCB? It's in the fiberglass."https://www.altium.com/live-conference/altiumlive-2018-annual-pcb-design-summit/sessions/extreme-importance-pc-board-stack-up …
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Replying to @gsuberland @marcan42
Got to see the talk, but AFAIK that's true only for high frequency (specially digital circuits). For low frequency analog for example energy is in the copper (or maybe I have been mistaken all my life).
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In fact when designing high frequency circuits, you must always pay attention to the current returns, or you will screw signal integrity.
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It's covered in the talk but the critical part is that many people don't realise that almost every digital part in existence now has >10MHz frequency components because of short rise/fall times.
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yeah this bit me recently when I figured I'd be fine with a 3-foot ribbon cable for a JTAG connector to a device- I could always just drop the clock speed if it was an issue nope! turns out that device drives TDO with the strength of a thousand suns, coupling into the adjacent
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Replying to @XMPPwocky
even at speeds of 10s of khz- because the rise/fall times were what actually mattered
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Yeah, in retrospect I bet this is related to the problems I had playing with timings to drive LED strips with Glasgow. Slowing things down barely helped with longer cables. The frequencies aren't too high, but the edge rates...
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