Dear Charles I have studied G-P-G case. What kind of situation are you interesting of? Best Regards Zhangkun 2004.12.8 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Grasso" <cgrassosprint1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <zhang_kun@xxxxxxxxxx>; <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <istvan.novak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx>; <Chris.Cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Why is capacitor with high ESR > Dear Zhangkun, > > First - Thanks for your observations. > > I have a question for you. If the pwb stack up had *multiple" ground planes > would you think all your observations would still be valid? > > Charles Grasso > > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of zhangkun 29902 > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:47 PM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: istvan.novak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx; > Chris.Cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Why is capacitor with high ESR > > > Dear all > > This morning, I spend half one hour to review all the mail about this topic. > According to my experience, there is the following views: > 1.Dency via will not absorb or scatter the EM energy. We have made > testing PCB to study this problem. When there is no decoupling caps, the > dency via will affect the resonance. While there is decoupling caps on the > PCB, the effect of dency via could be ignored. In DesignCon 2004, we have > proposed one paper. > 2.Via along the edge of PCB will not help to eliminate the far field EMI. > The via has no effect on reflecting EM energy unless the power and ground > plane is connected by via. The voltage source will be shorted. We have made > testing PCB to study this problem. > 3.Steve and Chris have proposed seven cases about the PCB decoupling. We > have measured almost the seven cases. The result is that the caps with high > ESR help on eliminate power ground noise. > 4.I have done some simulation about SI+PI. I do not see any great > difference when the signal referenced to power or ground. There is a little > difference because of the displacement current. I think power and ground are > same but the voltage potential. > > Best Regards > > Zhangkun > 2004.12.8 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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