Han; You can tie analog vdd/vss and one pair of digital vdd/vss at board level using ferrite bead and a capacitor(0.1 uf) . Recognize that you need to do some simulation with this filter and make sure it appropriately attenuates your low frequency board noise. A closed loop bandwidth plot of PLL can be very helpful to do the comparison and judge the performance of filter. That said, Opinions are wide as far as how you implement the analog vdd/vss and digital vdd/vss for PLL. I encourage you to read a paper by Patrik Larsson with the title " Measurements and Analysis of PLL Jitter Caused by Digital Switching Noise". It is an IEEE paper. This paper describes various methods of handling this with hardware data. Highly recommended reading. Hope this helps. Regards; Don Pakbaz Silicon Solutions Engineering IBM Systems & Technology Group Bi Han <mike_bihan@yahoo .com.cn> To Sent by: List` Si <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> si-list-bounce@fr cc eelists.org Subject [SI-LIST] Analog/Digital vss 04/27/2006 09:32 connection for a PLL IC AM Please respond to mike_bihan@yahoo. com.cn Hi, folks: Just wondering about an old question. There is a PLL chip, it has one pair of analog vdd/vss and one pair of digital vdd/vss. We will seperate vdds on chip and only connect them on the board level. My question is that shall we tie the analog vss with digital vss together on the chip? I've ever seen different types of answers on different forums, ppt, papers. Anyone suggest a one-stop document for that kind of conundrum? thanks, Han --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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