Doug, Are you saying that the 20-H rule only works when the board is bolted to a chassis? When you say the 20-H rule "really works", what do you mean? What kind of experiment could be done to demonstrate the effectiveness of this rule? Mary -----Original Message----- >From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Doug McKean >Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:04 AM >To: SI-List Discussion Group >Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: EMI and Power plane card edge clearance distance > >The results of that paper are very debatable, IMO. It was >a simulation of board floating in air. It has no correlation to >securing a similarly constructed board to a chassis by way >of ground studs in the real world. > >That this rule really works is a whole other matter. > >- Doug McKean ----- "winson yu": wrote > > Hi Stacy, > > You may check out a paper titled "Effects of 20-H Rule and Shielding Vias on > Electromagnetic Radiation From Printed Circuit Boards" presented at > EPEP2000. The paper concluded, from both theoretical analysis and numerical > computation, that for the two-plane structure, 20-H rule yields more > radiation than the normal structure. Also the numerical result shows that > the usage of shielding vias would cut down the radiation effectively. > > The link to the paper and the presentation (with additional cases study) is > at http://www.sigrity.com under the heading Support and Technical > Documentation paper # 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field 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