I am for sure not the expert on this but in my experience, you want = analog isolated to take advantage of extra filtering. Usually I run = into a seperate analog gnd when there is a PLL involved. You have to = keep the digital supplies away from this so there is nothing to confuse = the PLL.=20 Shane San Miguel=20 -----Original Message----- From: Parthasarathy Sampath [mailto:parthsv@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:44 PM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Analog/Digital Gnd Hi All, Why is that Analog ground and Digital ground are kept seperate during Layout? I have even noticed in some cases, seperate power rails are provided for analog and digital block even though they require same VDD. Thanks in Advance, Partha! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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