Dear Venu: A nice discussion of the pros and cons of applying guard bands for controlling Crosstalk is presented in reference 1. It seems unclear how much benefit (if any)can be gained by use of guard bands. Hence, it is more effective to use other means for reducing Xtalk (e.g. = use Striplines for eliminating forward crosstlk, increase trace separation, decrease trace height to reference plane, utilize termination, avoid routing over plane splits, etc.) Reference 1. Douglas Brooks, "Signal Integrity and Printed Circuit Board Design", Prentice Hall, 2003, PP. 233-234. Best Regards, Abe Riazi SeverWorks -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Ummalaneni, Venu Babu (Venu) Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 5:20 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Cross- talk vs shielding I need a small clarification on cross-talk between the signal traces. I studied that cross-talk =20 can be avoided by placing a shielding trace between two signal traces = and by grounding that shielding trace. By using this technique, is the = cross-talk can be avoided completely? or only it can be reduced by certain amount? = Any type of inputs are welcome. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Venu=20 =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu