Hi Containment and ease Trimming is only a choice and not a necessary process case by case. In order to void the different ground/power noise influence. Intuitively, trimming is a method. For the stack up with multi power ground layers, keep them complete can also pass EMC and ESD. Regards Trina Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:37 AM, "Shao, Peng" <Peng_Shao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Experts, > You may know that there is a traditional layout rule for out-board I/O > signals. The power/gnd plane area between I/O transformer/filter and > connector should be removed for EMI/ESD consideration. > I cannot understand why we need to do that or the function to improve > EMI/ESD. Could you please give out your opinion? Thanks. > ( To get high impedance trace? ) > > Peng, Shao SI Engineer > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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