Bob, Combination or some of the items below will help you: 1. Separate Digital and Analog power/ground section of PCB (make a moat trough all layers); 2. Place Analog and Digital PCB components separately; 3. Don't use switching power converter for Analog circuitry (use a linear one); 4. Use CM choke instead of ferrite bead; 5. Separate the Analog and Digital DC Current routing from the power supply source; 6. Use an impedance (R,L,C, Tx) if you need to run traces across the moat. Best Regards, At 14:24 01.08.2002 -0700, Bob Patel wrote: >Hi! >I had a question for filtering power to an analog >section from Digital VCC by using ferrite bead >approach. >The analog power is for a the circuit whose max. >switching freq. might not exceed 20MHz (E1 >application). Also this ferrite bead has curent limit >to 300ma, now if the circuit draws more than 300ma , >then the voltage will start dropping at the input of >the circuit. Hence cannot use ferrite beads. >So, how do I filter the analog supply from the digital >supply? >Thanks >Bob > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 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 > Val Mandrusov Sr. Compliance Enginneer CISCO Systems, Inc 375 East Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 M/S SJ-06/04 408-853-7415 Phone 408-853-3872 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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