Dear Sir, According to your Board Stack you have two strip lines and one assymmetrical dual stripline,but the two strip lines are bounded by one side power plane and Ground Plane on the other side...... If you have both side ground plane reference for the strip lines ,you can route all the Impedance controlled signals on Layer2 & layer8,because strip lines bounded by ground planes will be best layer for better signal integrity. But now you have assymmetrical dual stripline bounded by ground planes,so I beleive that layer 5&6 may be better option for routing clock signals,which will useful for return path, but you need to care of tandem pair of traces. and regarding board power plane EMI,you can follow 20H rule on layer2& layer9 power planes to reduce the power plane EMI and Top & Bottom layers you are doing Ground fill, so I think the device EMI will be controlled by the Ground fills. Regards, Suresh.K, Vth EDA Lab, C-DOT, Bangalore-52. On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, subramani wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing a board design. It has to pass stringent EMI tests. > > Mine is a 10 layer board. > > The board stack up is > 1 TOP component, GND filling > 2 Power > 3 signal > 4 GND filling > 5 signal > 6 Signal > 7 GND filling > 8 Signal > 9 Power > 10 Bottom Component, GND filling > > The board has SDRAM operating at 100Mhz. Where should I route the clocks. > Could anyone tell me about the ways and means of reducing EMI. > The SDRAM is placed that is near to the edge of PCB. Will it cause > radiation. > Is there a formula for keepout distance. > > Regards > Subramani > Mistral > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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