Saturday, 29 June 2013

General Layout Guidelines for RF and Mixed-Signal PCBs

PCB LAYOUT GUIDELINE



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(1) 20H Rule

The 20-H rule is a printed circuit board layout guideline. On boards with power and ground planes, the fringing field at the edges of the board is contained by backing the edge of the power plane away from the edge of the board by a distance equal to 20 times the separation distance between the planes.

(2) RF/Microwave Corners