Hi All, I have a basic doubt while routing my board. Following is the layer stackup what I am using. 1 ________________Signal 2 ________________Gnd. 3 ________________Signal 4 ________________Signal 5 ________________Pwr. 6 ________________Gnd. 7 ________________Signal 8 ________________Signal 9 _______________ Pwr. 10________________Signal My question is I am trying to maintain the same reference plane for routing track, For example I am starting a clock trace from top layer then switching to Signal layer 3 (GND ref) and then to Signal layer 7 ( GND ref). I am assuming this should be ok since it is having same GND as reference for the entire track. Is it advisable to have such practice to cross the layer pairs ? If I have a continuous plane Layer 5 (PWR) can I switch between signal layer 3 (GND ref ) and Signal layer 5 ( PWR Ref) for the same track. Any difference in these two type of switching in signal integrity perspective. Kindly share your feedbacks. Thank you, Vijay ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu