I have been searching through the archive for information regarding this but I have not come up with anything concrete. Many people mention using differential signaling in an effort to reduce common mode noise. Looking through Lee Ritchey's book "Right the First Time", his discussion implies that this is not the case. For there to be common mode noise rejection between two traces, the fields would have to be equal and opposite. In a PCB structure with a diff pair referencing GND planes (say in a stripline topology) this seems impossible! Routing signals next to eachother is convenient for length matching (skew management) but I don't see much else.... Any thoughts. And I do apologize if this has been discussed in detail before. Thanks Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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