Hi Jan, If you have a VNA handy, you could always get a small FR4 test board (using the material (maybe vendor as well?) you entend on using) made up with footprints for the different size passives and measure their s-parameters. You could fit the s-parameters to a equivalent RLC circuit, i think thats how murata do it - if i remember they used to have a library you could download which supplied s-parameters and equivalent circuits for their range of passives. Regards, Eoin steve weir wrote: >Jan, if you want a really accurate answer then a 3D solver is your >friend for this type of work. Pick any of the commercial tools and you >ought to be able to get a reasonable result. If you are willing to put >up with the UI, the free FFS programs FastCap and FastHenry should be >able to get you close. Of late I have spent most of my time with Simbeor. > >Steve. >jan.vercammen1@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > >>Hello si-list, >> >>I am working on photo-multiplier tube electronics. I am interested >>in the capacitive parasitic elements of surface mount resistors 100K-500K >>(type >>0805-0603) mounted on FR4 PCB - substrate height range about 0.5mm >>above th GND plane. My interest is primarily on the parallel capacitance. >> >>I googled but came almost empty handed. I have information from >>IEEExplore on photo-diode transimpedance ampli's where the parallel Cp >>capacitance quoted is 0.1pF (R>1Gohm, Tyco HA type, SMD?, see paper >>"How to enlarge the bandwidth without increasing the noise in >>OP-AMP-based transimpedance amplifier", Ciofi et al.) >> >>Vishay reports on high-frequency SMD resistors (type CF20): >>0.026pF for 0402 and 0.040pF for 0603 >> >>Murata's impedance library gives the following data (on SMD inductors): >>0.09pF for 0402 and 0.16pF for 0603 >> >>I prefer the latter data because these likely reflect conditions we will >>experience >>on FR4 PCBs. >> >>Any suggestions for additional data on parallel and shunt capacitances of >>SMD resitors mounted on FR4?? >> >> >> >>Jan Vercammen >>EMC/Signal Integrity 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 >>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 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- _______________________________ Eoin Mc Gibney Test Development Eng. Audio & Video Products Analog Devices B.V. Tel: +353-61-495918 Email: eoin.mcgibney@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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