[SI-LIST] Re: LC filters on power pins
- From: Bill Owsley <owsley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: david.kaiser@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:58:24 -0400
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At 12:13 PM 09/27/2001 , David Kaiser wrote:
>I have a question about LC filters on power SERDES and other Gbit devices.
>
>Most SERDES venders provide app notes that suggests using LC filters on the
>power pins of these Gbit devices to prevent noise from getting on to the
>power planes. But it seems to me that the LC filter components would have no
>effect at these Gbit frequencies, and could in fact make matter worse
>because the power pins would have no more than maybe a small island of
>interplane capacitance for decoupling. It seems that it would be better to
>just tie the power pins directly to buired capacitance planes. What do the
>SI gurus think?
>
>Also, it seems that at multiple GHz frequencies, the return path for the
>noise on the power planes would be so short, that noise would be squelched
>to quickly to cause problems on the planes.
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