Jeff, Thanks for your input. I do not have nay signals crossing the split. The nearest ground is 2 signal layers away. My concern is that these voltage islands sitting side by side may form a slot antenna and radiate. Questions are: 1. How far apart these voltage islands should be from each other. 2. If decoupling capacitors along the two adjacent edges can help then how far apart should the caps ber placed along the edge. Thanks, Ibrahim Khan -----Original Message----- From: EVANS,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex3) [mailto:jeff_evans@xxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:34 PM To: Ibrahim Khan; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] Slot Antenna Ibrahim, Besides the slot antenna which might be exacerbated by signals crossing the split, or EM noise propagating from inside your PCA, it sounds like you now also have two patch antennas (3.3 and 1.5). Actually, both of these effects can be mostly mitigated with an underlying continuous closely coupled ground plane (2 to 4 mils) and good high frequency discrete decoupling capacitors sprinkled around both voltage planes. -Jeff Evans EMC Architect/Lead Research and Development Industry Standard Server Division Hewlett Packard Company -----Original Message----- From: Ibrahim Khan [mailto:ikhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:59 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST]=20 Hello SI Gurus, =20 If we have a split plane with two different voltages on the splits (e.g 3.3 on one side and 1.5 on the other). Will it make a slot antenna. =20 Thanks for any insight. =20 Ibrahim Khan ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: =20 //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages=20 Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu =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 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