hi si gurus, i'm very new to this si-list.Pl cope up with me if i say something wrong i'm degining a digital output card which is outputting digital siganls of amplitude 24 volts. for these 24 V signals ,return path is Gnd trace of 16 mils width, 24 V power supply trace is also 16 mils width. .i'm not using a seperate gnd plane or power plane for this 24 V power supply signals on the board .These r coming through the connector.Also its not possible to route 24 V ground trace near to the each output signal so that return loop area will be minimum. These output signals are low speed signals. From the Black magic book i came to know that current density will not be uniform on the siganl return path .It will be max near the signal trace.I dont understand the consequence of this nonuniformity of current density along the return path.Can it affect the ckt operation . Any Suggestions/comments are welcome. Chandra Bhushan Gupta Member Technical Staff, Real Time Systems Group, Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing, No. 1,Old Madras Road, Opp. HAL Aeroengine Divn. Byappahalli,Bangalore-560038 TEL :91-80-5244059 91-80-5341909,1874 Fax:91-80-5247724 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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