I could live with this with sufficient decoupling caps. You may consider some of that spiffy thin dielectric material between your powers and grounds for more intrinsic capacitance. Regards, Bill William Csongradi Senior Electrical Engineer Rockwell Collins Heads Down Display Center 319-295-7884 Mailing Address Rockwell Collins 400 Collins Road NE MS 105-167 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52498-0001 V S <for_si2003@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/22/2008 11:23 AM To si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joseph Pankow <jhpankow@xxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [SI-LIST] Re: Multiple power planes coupling to ground I was just wondering if the plane stack VCC1 | GND | VCC2 | GND | VCC3 could be a better alternative. But we can not be sure unless we know what signals are above and below these power layers. Vikas Shukla http://referencedesigner.com --- On Mon, 9/22/08, Joseph Pankow <jhpankow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Joseph Pankow <jhpankow@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [SI-LIST] Multiple power planes coupling to ground > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 12:40 AM > Hello all, > If you have multiple power planes sandwiched between 2 > ground planes - > somewhere in your stackup - next to each other like so: > > | > GND > | > VCC1 > | > VCC2 > | > VCC3 > | > GND > | > > From a high-frequency noise filtering/decoupling > standpoint, VCC1 and VCC3 > have relatively good capacitive coupling to ground, but > what about VCC2? > > I understand that there will be capacitive coupling between > VCC2 and the > other planes, but does this still give me a reasonably good > filtering scheme > for VCC2 at high frequency? Or does it just couple VCC2 > noise onto my other > power planes? > > I'm trying to visualize the loop currents to ground > when devices draw power > from VCC2. Will the VCC2 power noise will couple directly > through the other > power planes to ground, or will the other power planes will > act like shields > so that VCC2 no longer has good low-inductance filtering > for high frequency > noise? > > Any insight would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Joseph > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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