I had built two boards, one with Power and Ground 4 mils apart, and the other in which two signal planes were sandwiched between Power and Ground. Both had same number of decoupling capacitors. The PDN simulation showed the first board to be significantly better than the second board, with fewer resonances. However, both had very similar EMI performance. Regards, Ravinder Ajmani Server PCB Development Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Email: Ravinder.Ajmani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Lynne D. Green" <lgreen22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/21/2009 01:42 PM To Si-List <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [SI-LIST] Re: PDN question A note from Pat Andre: There are hundreds of them... thousands. Just go to Dr. Todd Hubing's site at Clemson University. The link can be found at http://andreconsulting.com/links.htm <sbipped> - Patrick =-=-=-=-=-= Patrick G. Andre Andre Consulting, Inc. 12812 NE 185th Court Bothell WA 98011-3121 Work: 206-406-8371 Fax: 425-485-8153 pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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