Dear Ludovic I have made a similar PCB of your stackup. The noise coupling between VCC1 and VCC2 is serious. I suggest that the seperation between VCC1 and VCC2 to be large. Best Regards Zhangkun 2005.10.24 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ludovic Levieil" <ludovic.levieil@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:12 PM Subject: [SI-LIST] Power plane coupling > Hello All, > In my current board design I have the following stack up: > > ....... > ---------------- GND (solid plane) > ------ ----- --- VCC1 (splitted plane) > --- ----- ------ VCC2 (splitted plane) > ---------------- GND (solid plane) > ....... > > 4 mils separate GND and VCC planes > 5 mils separate VCC1 and VCC2 planes > > Both VCC planes are splitted in different power domains and I am wondering > : > - if having two coupled VCC planes is good/acceptable when > thinking about noise ?? > - if there is a problem in having one power domain on on plane > overlapping at least two power domains on the other plane ?? > > Thanks > > Ludovic Levieil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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