[SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with ferrite bead good idea?

  • From: steve weir <weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Stefan Milnor <stefan.milnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:59:01 -0800

Stefan they are narrow etch segments that form small inductors. 

Steve.
Stefan Milnor wrote:
> What is a "trench and draw bridge" - in circuit design ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Cheng, Chris
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:09 PM
> To: Tom Dagostino; 'Joel Brown'; 'Dan Smith'; 'steve weir'
> Cc: 'Lee Ritchey'; 'Dong Kim'; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Istvan Novak';
> 'liuluping 41830'
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
> ferrite bead good idea?
>
> First off I have to apologize for tangenting off from the original
> discussion which is isolating digital and analog power planes with
> beads. Personally I don't believe in them for most of the situations and
> at most something like a trench and a draw bridge will probably work.
> But too many discussions about applying beads in PLL filtering followed
> and I think we need to clarify a few points.
> There always two opposite sides of PLL loop bandwidth trade off, jitter
> transfer vs. jitter accumulation.
> If you come from the current SerDes designers, you will most likely
> believe in jitter transfer and cut your loop bandwidth to as low as you
> can do.
> If you come from the classic PLL applications such as CPU or ASIC
> internal clocks, you will most likely be more concern about core noise
> and jitter accumulation.
> I happened to come from the later school so a natural thing to do is to
> push the loop bandwidth of the PLL to as high as possible without
> sacrificing phase margin too much. The beauty of it is the PLL then can
> self correct its jitter up to near the PLL loop bandwidth. The side
> effect of this is you can easily build an internal regulator with modest
> damping and pretty much clean up the jitter from low to all the way to
> near the loop bandwidth frequency. This is when the external power
> filtering become interesting. Because the frequency needing protection
> is relatively high, the ferrite bead is ideal for the application
> because it has high loss at those high frequency. That would also allows
> a relatively small capacitor to form the filter tree and it makes a
> great compact external filter. The ESR of the bead can be spec to
> relatively low to avoid the DC drop but I found sometimes I need a small
> series resistor just to keep the Q low enough. That was the original
> design when we 
>  
>  first investigate this PLL jitter accumulation effects in the late 80's
> and published the app notes for our then ASIC vendors.
> If you come from the "fear everything from the source jitter transfer so
> let's drop bandwidth as low as we can" camp, well, then why are you
> worry about jitter accumulation and build the power filter trees in the
> first place ? That's like breaking your right leg and then complain
> about why can't you run......
> But that's a debate we have to wait for the next time.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Chris Cheng
> Distinguished Technologist , Electrical
> Hewlett-Packard Company
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Tom Dagostino
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:11 PM
> To: 'Joel Brown'; 'Dan Smith'; 'steve weir'
> Cc: 'Lee Ritchey'; 'Dong Kim'; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Istvan Novak';
> 'liuluping 41830'
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
> ferrite bead good idea?
>
> I find the "follow the reference design" approach very iffy at best.
> Any
> filter that is places between the "outside world" and the PLL or
> whatever
> only reduces the noise from the outside world by XdB(f).  So if the
> noise
> the IC vendor had in the reference design was only 50 mV and your
> outside
> world is at 100 mV or has a different frequency content you may have an
> issue.  You need specs for what the chip can tolerate, not a cook book
> design.
>
> Tom Dagostino
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of Joel Brown
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:09 PM
> To: 'Dan Smith'; 'steve weir'
> Cc: 'Lee Ritchey'; 'Dong Kim'; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Istvan Novak';
> 'liuluping 41830'
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
> ferrite
> bead good idea?
>
> I encounter this very frequently when it comes to designing with parts
> that
> have separate analog and/or PLL power rails. It is very common for
> manufacturers of these parts to recommend either in a datasheet,
> application
> note or reference design to use a ferrite bead which in theory could
> reduce
> the noise that is present on the digital power supplies. Sometimes a
> manufacturers P/N is given for the ferrite bead and sometimes no
> information
> is given. For me when dealing with a vendor a typical scenario would be
> like
> this:
>
> Submit a question to mysupport.com "what are the noise and ripple
> requirement of the analog and PLL power inputs"
>
> Answer one week later "Just follow the reference design, we have tested
> it
> and it works. If you don't follow it then good luck".
>
> My options are as follows:
>
> Do a PDN analysis of the whole board and determine if the noise is low
> enough to directly connect the analog and/or PLL to the digital power.
> In reality this is a guesstimate because you can with some serious work
> determine with some degree of accuracy the PDN impedance but no IC
> manufacturer will tell you the input power current vs frequency
> characteristics of their part which is what you need to know what the
> noise
> voltage will actually be.
>
> Do an analysis of the ferrite / capacitor network to see how it behaves
> and
> look for problems like resonances.
>
> Replace or supplement the ferrite bead with a linear regulator to
> further
> reduce the noise. This only works for certain frequencies that the
> regulator
> will reject input noise.
>
> In the end whatever I choose to do, I think making noise measurements on
> the
> actual circuit is probably the most useful piece of information. If I
> didn't
> get it right then I can tweak the ferrite or capacitors to get it
> working.
> This hasn't happened yet.
>
> Its too bad that the manufacturers of ICs can't come up with some
> standardized way specifying current and noise on power pins. Everybody
> has
> IBIS or SPICE models of the signal I/O pins but when it comes to power
> it's
> a black hole.
>
> Joel
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of Dan Smith
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 1:34 PM
> To: steve weir
> Cc: Lee Ritchey; Dong Kim; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Istvan Novak;
> liuluping
> 41830
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
> ferrite
> bead good idea?
>
> Steve that is a good point.  Dong, in my experience the most difficult
> piece
> of the design (of late, all my designs) is getting the requirements out
> of
> the vendors.  I use a common spreadsheet that I customize for each chip.
> I
> then ask the vendor to fill in all the blanks for me and those blanks
> are
> P/S ripple requirements over which frequencies that their chips is
> guaranteed to work.  With that, you have the requirements feeding into
> your
> PDS design as Steve mentions.  In one case I did have to meet a 0.5%
> ripple
> requirement (yeah, not a typo although I didn't believe it) so I did add
> one
> RC filter to a low current pin.  But that has only been once in the last
> 5
> designs I did.
>
> I am empathetic with you because the vendor climb as described above is
> very
> steep (and for me, I still haven't reached the top... :-) ).  At this
> point
> I would say slightly better than half of the vendors now give me this
> information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve weir [mailto:weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 1:08 PM
> To: Dan Smith
> Cc: Lee Ritchey; Dong Kim; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Istvan Novak;
> liuluping
> 41830
> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
> ferrite bead good idea?
>
> Dan, ferrite beads are way too often used where they are not needed, and
> are way too often applied without proper consideration to managing their
> side-effects.  This frequently gets people into trouble, and likely
> contributed to the failure you experienced.
>
> The problem Dong presents includes lack of: requirements specification,
> design information, and expertise on the part of Dong.  Dong's
> misgivings may well be justified.  However, if Dong goes ahead and
> designs a PDN without working against a set of requirements, if he is
> successful it will only be by happenstance.  That neither vindicates,
> nor refutes his colleague's design.
>
> If Dong's colleague has done his homework, then Dong's colleague can
> show Dong that:
>
> 1. The design meets a stated set of requirements obtained either from
> vendor specifications, and/or measurements.
> 2. The use of ferrite beads made it easier to meet those requirements.
>
> The places where ferrite beads make sense are very distinct.  Usually,
> no more than casual inspection of PDN requirements immediately indicate
> whether a ferrite bead based filter is worth considering.  Assuming that
> Dong's colleague did his homework, it should be very easy for him to
> point Dong at the requirements that led to use of a ferrite bead and to
> challenge Dong to find a better alternate solution.  If on the other
> hand, the PDN engineer has simply followed a cookbook recipe then
> whether the design works or not depends on how well that recipe
> encompasses the variables such as:  component placement, stack-up, and
> other loads on the same power rail(s) in the implementation.
>
> Steve.
>
> Dan Smith wrote:
>   
>> Dong,
>>
>> The best way to convince him, perhaps, is to ignore his advice and do
>>     
> a
> proper PDS design like you want to.  Then, when the results come in
> prove it
> to him based on your evidence.  I have been doing 3GIG and 10GIG SERDES
> designs for 8 years and only used ferrite beads once.  That was my first
> SERDES design and I too followed advice of someone else - It was also
> the
> only time my SERDES design didn't work!  Since, I have never used a
> ferrite
> bead (initially ignoring several people and doing my own engineering)
> and
> have been successful for the last 7 years - including across backplanes.
> The key, though, is performing a PDS (which includes instantaneous
> currents
> and a stable power supply) and not just simply removing the ferrite
> beads.
>   
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>>     
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> On Behalf Of Lee Ritchey
>   
>> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 9:44 AM
>> To: Dong Kim; steve weir; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Istvan Novak; liuluping 41830
>> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: anlog and digital power plane isolation with
>>     
> ferrite bead good idea?
>   
>> Dong,
>> I have attached a PDS design program from Altera.  Notice that it does
>>     
> not
>   
>> include any ferrite beads.  same kind of thing is available from
>>     
> Xilinx.
>   
>> Yes, old applications notes from both Altera an Xilinx said to use
>>     
> ferrite
>   
>> beads.  This was never good advice and has finally been taken from
>>     
> their
> app
>   
>> notes, but not before may engineers got conned into using ferrite
>>     
> beads.
>   
>> Lee
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Dong Kim" <kimdongsik_us@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 4:03 PM
>> To: "Lee Ritchey" <leeritchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "steve weir"
>> <weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx>; <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Istvan Novak" <istvan.novak@xxxxxxx>; "liuluping 41830"
>> <liuluping@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [SI-LIST] anlog and digital power plane isolation with
>>     
> ferrite
> bead
>   
>> good idea?
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My colleague, a PDN engineer, insist he has to use ferrite bead to
>>>       
> isolate
>   
>>> an analog power plane from digital plane for an large FPGA I am using
>>>       
> on
> a
>   
>>> PCB design.
>>> I have been trying to convince him it would be better to have good
>>> decoupling filter by adding inner-plane capacitance and decoupling
>>>       
> caps.
>   
>>> But, he is insisting I should prove it either by theory or simulation
>>> before he can change his mind to remove the isolation ferrite bid and
>>>       
> add
>   
>>> planer cap in my board stack-up.  I could not really prove by
>>>       
> methodical
>   
>>> thory nor have time and tool to simulate.
>>>
>>> With my shallow  knowledge, it will just end with arguing even if he
>>>       
> agree
>   
>>> to do what I tell him to do.
>>> My knowledge is  from my past board design with similar
>>>       
> characteristics,
> I
>   
>>> did not use the ferrite to isolate the analog and digital power
>>>       
> planes.
>   
>>> It worked fine.
>>> I also has shown him Lee Ritch's 2nd volume of "Right the first
>>>       
> time".
>   
>>> But, I guess it did not convince him.
>>>
>>> Please someone explain why analog and digital power isolation by
>>>       
> using
> may
>   
>>> be not a good idea.
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dong S. Kim
>>>
>>>
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