Study on the Effect of Metal-Wall Loading on the DC Power-Bus

  • Kahng Sungtek (Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon University)
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

The DC power-bus for the PCB is loaded with metal walls on its selected sides and is characterized electromagnetically. This is a novel concept of approach to mitigate the spurious resonance and finally signal integrity problems. In particular, the peak at DC, which is always in the way to secure parallel-plates' EMC, can be completely removed by the proposed method. Through the findings of this study, the effect of metal-loading of the power-bus will be presented along with the impression that the suggested technique can tackle the headaches of signal integrity, ground bounce, EMIs.

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