Hello Xing Chang, Relax, no one is going to shoot you for your English !! Si-list is a forum where people exchange technical conversation related to Signal Integrity and related fields and question you asked is well within purview of related fields. Your question is a classical case of stripline where power plane is not the signaling voltage and now question comes that why it's advised to not use unrelated power plane ? Actually when you use unrelated power plane, you force return current to travel through two different PDN networks ( In your case it is core and IO supply network !) that means current will see high PDN impedance and as you know high PDN impedance means high voltage drop across PDN impedance thus achieving a low voltage drop is difficult in this case. To cut a long story short, when you use unrelated power plane the decoupling requirements are much more stringent to achieve target impedance. Hope that helps ! Rgds, Rohit Mishra -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Xing Chang Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:40 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Stripline problem Hello, I design pcb and in one board, i design stripline and I put core supply as one reference and ground as another reference. my boss told me that i shouldn't use core supply but I should use IO supply as reference. I asked the reason but I was told that it creates a problem so dont use it. I am confuse, can someone help me to understand ? I am afraid, my english is not so good. Xing Chang ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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