The Sierra Circuits High-Speed Design Guide helps you design PCBs with signal frequencies from 50MHz to as high as 3GHz and beyond.
8 CHAPTERS
115 PAGES
150 MINUTE READ
Complex electronics require increased component counts on ever-shrinking PCB designs. The result is high-density and high-frequency of circuit operation. This High-Speed PCB Design Guide will challenge your PCB design skills.
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To execute a successful design for a circuit board, one has to first determine if it is in fact a high-speed design. If it is a high-speed design, then the PCB designer would need to take special care during the design process; and we would call them high-speed design considerations – the main subject of this guide.
In most cases, based on their past experience, the design engineering team may determine the nature of the design.
In order to determine if the PCB requires high-speed design, we follow a two-step process:
First, the designer must state the values of one or more of the following parameters:
Second, you need to determine the wavelength (λm) on the PCB of the electrical (electromagnetic to be precise) signals for a given frequency, in our case Fm.
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