Brooks Douglas. Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design

Prentice Hall PRT, 2003. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0133359473.In this book, renowned engineer, author, and seminar leader Douglas Brooks teaches PCB designers how to successfully desjgn boards for any high-speed application. Brooks begins with an easy-to-understand electronics primer for every PCB designer, then offers practical, real-world solutions for every important signalintegrity problem. Based on his legendary seminars, this book offers even more design rules, specific recommendations, examples, illustrations, and diagrams.
This book is primarily aimed at circuit board designers. Typically these people have either no formal engineering education or a 2-year associates degree. A few have formal 4-year degrees and find themselves now designing boards either on a part time basis (as an adjunct to their normal design activities) or perhaps full-time. Almost none of them have ever received any formal education in signal integrity issues as related to board design, principally because almost no such training is offered--anywhere! Therefore, there is a need for a basic, comprehensive text that covers the causes of these problems and their solutions.Coverage includes:
Essential electronics concepts: propagation, current, resistance, reactance, impedance, phase shifts, and more
EMI principres and contrors: foop area, uncontrolled differential currents, and common mode currents
Controlling signal reflections: transmission lines, proper terminations, and trace layer design
Power system stability (bypass capacitor decoupling): traditional approaches and techniques based on power-system impedance
Eliminating forward crosstalk and eliminating or controlling backward crosstalk
Power-system conditioning: power-system plane design and correct board stackups
Lossy lines and eye diagrams: skin effects, dielectric absorption, and more
Two full chapters of simulation illustrationsideal for those without access to high-speed simulation toolsBasic Concepts.
Electronic Concepts.
Propagation Times.
Electrical Components.
Voltage and Current Changes and Time Constants.
Resistance.
Reactance.
Impedance and Phase Shift.Signal Integrity Issues.
Signal Integrity Overview.
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI).
Reflections and Transmission Lines.
Some Transmission Line Simulations.
Crosstalk.
Crosstalk Simulations.
Differential Traces and Impedance.
Bypass Caps and Decoupling Systems.
Power Systems.
Lossy Lines and Eye Diagrams.Appendices, Glossary, and Index.