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via impedance calculator Why Most Via Impedance Calculators Are Inaccurate 12 min Blog PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers PCB Design Engineers Via impedance calculators are only useful in the low frequency range, where impedance control is typically not needed. Read Article
The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field 7 min Blog Do you know how the skin effect alters the electric and magnetic field around a transmission line? We’ll address an important misconception in this article. Read Article
Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity 39 min OnTrack Bert Simonovich, a very well-known expert in the signal integrity community, is our guest in today’s podcast episode. He developed the "Cannonball-Huray" model a transmission line loss modeling, which has been adopted in several popular EDA tools. Read Article
PCB Teardrops on Differential Pairs Should You Place Teardrops on Differential Pairs? 9 min Blog We’ll look at an interesting question from an OnTrack podcast guest about teardrops on differential pairs. Will they create signal integrity problems? Read Article
NVMe M.2 PCIe connector stubs A Brief Study of Stubs on a PCIe Connector 6 min Blog Stubs are an important topic in high-speed PCB design, and there is a longstanding guideline that stubs should always be Read Article
ground below inductor Are PCB Ground Planes Placed Under Inductors in Switching Regulators? 6 min Blog Should you place a ground cutout beneath the inductor in a switching regulator PCB layout? This is an important question surrounding EMI/EMC, and we’ll investigate in this article. Read Article
skew sources high speed PCB Addressing Skew Sources in High Speed PCBs 5 min Blog Sometimes, when we talk about skew, we aren't as specific as we should be. Most discussions of skew and jitter Read Article