This addresses most of your immediate questions on behaviors: http://www.ipblox.com/pubs/SVCEMC_Feb_2012/How Bad is Bad.pdf Your quantitative questions require that you do engineering homework. Today, there are lots of good books out there on the subjects of power and signal integrity. Get a hold of one and start reading. Steve. On 3/8/2012 8:11 PM, krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi ALL > > > I am new to the concept of Stitching Vias and capacitances in PCBs. > > Hence I request the experts in this forum to help me understand the > following: > > > > 1. What are stitching vias? > 2. Why are they needed? > 3. How to determine how many stitching vias are required for a given > layer stack up and signals? > 4. How far or close they should be to the signal vias if they are to be > decided with respect to the location of signal vias? > 5. One Layout Engineer was recently talking about stitching > capacitances in the inner layers for making the power planes to behave like > a good reference plane (similar to a ground plane)? I couldn't understand > what he was talking about. Please help. > 6. Is stitching capacitance same as stitching vias? When are they > needed. > 7. Are there any reference texts or app notes available to know these > things? > > > > Please help. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > With Thanks and Best Regards, > > Krishna. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 forum is accessible at: > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list > > 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 > > > -- Steve Weir IPBLOX, LLC 150 N. Center St. #211 Reno, NV 89501 www.ipblox.com (775) 299-4236 Business (866) 675-4630 Toll-free (707) 780-1951 Fax All contents Copyright (c)2012 IPBLOX, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This e-mail may contain confidential material. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all records and notify the sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list 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