FYI; The slides Steve referred to in his mail below are available, either = at the ansoft FTP site: ftp://ftp.ansoftsupport.com/download/workshop/emi_emc_boston_2007/Ans= oft_EMI_Workshop_SUN_for_22Aug07_v2.pdf or as the top item on http://home.att.net/~istvan.novak/papers.html Regards, Istvan Novak SUN Misrosystems steve weir wrote On 08/29/07 04:57,: >Zhengrong, generally the modal impedance peaks build up to a limit a= nd >then fall-off for the higher modes. If your board or plane patch are= a is >small the high frequency limit where this happens might be very high= . If >you do not see this fall-off you are probably not modeling dielectri= c >loss correctly, have very small cavity areas, and/or very thick cavi= ties. > >There are a number of ways to suppress Q. I think Istvan just put on= a >presentation for Ansoft on this subject. I haven't checked to see if= his >presentation is available to the public or not. A gross method is to >flood the board with bypass capacitors. If many bypass capacitors ar= e >evenly spaced and selected with the proper values then the resonance= s >only peak above the inductive line a little bit. This is a somewhat >crude and expensive solution, but it does work. Bruce Archambeault h= as >also written extensively on this subject, usually from an EMI centri= c >point of view. > >The S11 impedance which is much easier to simulate than to measure t= ells >you how much noise will appear at a given location for a given >excitation at that point. Higher Qs result in higher impedance peaks= , >and consequently higher voltage noise for a given amount of current >injected at the frequency of interest. Basically to combat the noise >voltage, you either have to bring the PDN impedance down, and/or red= uce >the amount of energy you inject into it such as through return curre= nts. >HF impedance including resonant peaks always comes back to the >inductance of the bypass caps and the interconnect which is why I gi= ve >inductance a lot of attention. If you are trying to build cheapy lin= e >cards on 4 or 6 layers or even 2 layers this takes a good deal of ca= re. > >You can use bypass caps to drop the cavity impedance and suppress no= ise >across the card very effectively even with thick cavities. Where thi= ck >cavities can be very ugly is when using ICs that were not engineered= to >work well on high PDN impedance PCBs. Getting IC manufacturers to de= sign >ICs with the application PCB in mind is still largely a work in >progress. In extreme cases an IC may not be engineered properly to w= ork >on any realizable PCB. > >Steve. > >xuzhengrong wrote: > =20 > >> Steve, >>I'm very glad to receive your reply and have learnt a lot from your= papers >>issued on DesignCon. >>I know increasing ESR and decreasing inductance can lower Qs whi= ch >>decreases the resonance and makes the impedance smooth. >>What I meant is that, for the same plane pair structure with the sa= me >>capacitors, when I set the number of modes and simulate, I will g= et datas >>of different mode such as Mode 1, Mode2 and so on. >>According to the figure of the result, it seems that Mode 1 shows t= he >>resonance from horizontal angle, Mode 2 from vertical angle, Mode= 3 from >>diagonal angle, etc. Different mode analyzes the resonance from dif= ferent >>angle. >>As my last mail said, every mode has a certain frequency and Q in= creases >>with the number of modes and corresponding frequency in term of the= result. >>Mode 1 is the lowest frequency among all. Therefore, with the inc= reasement >>of the number of modes, more resonant frequency will appear. >>You mean, I only pay attention to the bandwidth of significant sig= nal which >>may excite the resonance. Ok, I see. >> >>My following question is, why do Qs increase with the number of mod= es and >>frequency for the same cavity and PDN? >>Which imformation will I obtain from Qs?=20 >>For Q indicates the ratio of storage and loss, does it mean large= r number >>of Mode with higher resonant frequency will let more energy pass? >> >>Best Regards >>Zhengrong Xu >> >> >>-----=D3=CA=BC=FE=D4=AD=BC=FE----- >>=B7=A2=BC=FE=C8=CB: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bo= unce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >>=B4=FA=B1=ED steve weir >>=B7=A2=CB=CD=CA=B1=BC=E4: 2007=C4=EA8=D4=C229=C8=D5 14:02 >>=CA=D5=BC=FE=C8=CB: xuzhengrong@xxxxxxxxxx >>=B3=AD=CB=CD: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>=D6=F7=CC=E2: [SI-LIST] Re: Resonant Modes >> >>Zhengrong, >> >>Pay attention to the resonances that are within the bandwidth of si= gnificant >>signal energy from your loads and/or injected into your return path= . >> >>Q depends on the capacitors and materials you use for your PCB. Low= mounted >>inductance capacitors such as X2Ys exhibit lower Qs than capacitors= with >>higher mounted inductances and similar ESRs. >> >>Cavities that are thinner and/or have higher tangent losses exhibit= lower Qs >>than do thicker cavities and/or cavities with lower tangent loss. >> >>At the end of the day you are always fighting inductance in your ca= pacitors >>and interconnect. You can manipulate modes and Q by manipulating yo= ur >>capacitors and cavity geometries. >> >>Steve. >> >>xuzhengrong wrote: >> =20 >> =20 >> >>>Oh, I am so sorry for that.=3D20 >>>I have sent another email in text format, but i don't know why it= =3D=20 >>>hasn't been sent to all yet. >>>When I sent to si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, i received several autorep= lies=20 >>>=3D for their out of office.=3D20 So I sent both to si-list@freel= ists.org=20 >>>and =3D si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx this time. >>>I'm new here and very glad to join in.=3D20 Could you tell me the= =20 >>>relationship between si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and=20 >>>si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx? When i want to join the discussion,= =20 >>>which =3D mail address will i send to? >>> >>>Thank you for your reminder with best regards.=3D20 My question i= s=20 >>>listed as follows. >>> >>> >>>Hi all, >>>I am new in using EM tools to analyze the plane pairs' resonance. >>>After inputing the number of modes and computing, the results have= =3D=20 >>>several values including freqency and Q. Every mode has a certain= =20 >>>frequency and =3D Q increases with the number of modes.=3D20 =3D20= Which=20 >>>mode should i pay most attention to? >>>Why does Q value increase with the number of modes and frequency? >>>How to analysze with these data and which information can i obtain= =20 >>>from =3D it? >>>=3D20 >>>Appreciate any idea about that. >>>=3D20 >>>Best Regards >>>Zhengrong Xu >>> >>> =20 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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