No, not a concern. This forum chats a lot about high speed signals crossing plane splits, but the various power supplies are not high speed signals. High Sometimes people worry about noise coupling through the small common capacitance, but unless your needs are truly unusual, such coupling is so small compared to the bypass capacitances that it is of no consequence. Note that high speed signals outside of this portion of the stack up will see only your ground planes and not be affected by the split power planes or their overlapping portions. Orin -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ashok Srinivas Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:13 PM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] power planes on adjacentlayers crossing each other Hi SI-LIST, We are using a 12 layer PCB stack up and have power planes on layer 6 and layer 7 (just to clarify layers 6 and 7 are not power planes completely but its more like a power plane island). These power planes on layers 6 and 7 cross each other. I will use layer 5 to ground the layer 6 power plane and similarly use layer 8 to ground the layer 7 power plane. Is this crossing a concern ?if yes why? Thanks! -- Ashok ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu