High-Speed Printed Circuit Design - A Practical Approach

Duration: one day

Don't be caught with your clock frequency down!

The output edge rate (rise/fall time) of the devices in a circuit and the rate at which they are clocked are the causes of the "high speed" effect in a printed circuit board. Rapid rise & fall time devices are the main driving force behind the need to control circuit impedance and high speed effects. A circuit with 1.0 ns rise time devices can create serious problems whether being clocked at 1MHz or 100MHz.

Rise times today are increasing at a dynamic rate, due to demand from key industries, such as computer and telecommunications manufacturers. Economics is driving slower devices out of the market and we’re all finding ourselves in a high speed, impedance controlled environment. The net effect, ready or not, is that Signal Integrity and EMI issues are coming to a CAD station near you!

Training to get you up to Speed!

This course is a crisp focus on the issues PC board designers and Engineers need to know. The topics include-

Recommended Reading List.
Electrical & Electronic Domain (R, C, L, Currents, Frequency, etc.).
Signal & Wave Propagation / Transmission Line defined.
What is Transmission Line Impedance/Why Control it.
Er, Propagation Time/Velocity and Rise Distance.
Line Impedance Models and How to Resolve Impedance (Calculators / Equations/ Etc.).
Line Types and Impedance Values - What & Why.
Trace Routing and Termination Schemes.
Signal & Wave Attenuation / Analysis of Attenuation.
Connectors in High Speed Circuits.
Differential Pairs - What, Why and How.
Correct Power Distribution and Decoupling.
Determining Layer Stack & Line Width and Stack-ups that work.
PC Board Fabrication / Fabrication Drawing Needs.
Impedance Coupons and Testing.
Cost Differential for Controlled Impedance PCBs.

All Attendees will receive a full set of overheads and notes that can be utilized for future reference when designing High Speed circuits and printed circuit boards.