Hi, all As i know, most PKG designers split their ground plane in PKG. It is usually for seperation of digital with analog. However, i think, even if we split GND on PKG, once the package is connected to board by BGA or wirebonding, the effect of split-GND on PKG will not be appear. Instead, the board design is much more dominate than pkg p/g design. So, in my opinion, we don't have to split its ground plane on PKG because it doesn't affect to overall p/g design including board (maybe a little) and splitting the ground plane may cause the signal integrity problem. Could you please let me know the reason designers split the ground plane in package. rgs, Jongbae. -- --------------------------------------------------------Ph.D Candidate StudentTerahertz Interconnection & Package Laboratory,Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),373-1, Kusong-dong, Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-701, KoreaFax)+82-42-869-8058Tel)+82-42-869-5458Mobile)+82-11-9787-7966E-mail) pjb77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL) http://tera.kaist.ac.kr/-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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