This book covers the increasingly complex area of Signal Integrity issues in PCB design thoroughly, but without a need for great technical depth of understanding.Section 1 is an overview of electrical engineering principles that can serve as an introductory course for someone without any engineering education, or a review for someone who has. Section 1 can be skipped for people who already have a solid understanding in EE.Section 2 covers the major causes of signal integrity problems on printed circuit boards (a) EMI, (c) crosstalk, (c) signal reflections and transmission lines, and (d) power system decoupling (bypass capacitors). Each topic is covered in depth with real world illustrations and numerous examples. Two complete chapters are devoted to examples of how high-end computer simulation software packages view signal integrity problems and their solutions.
About the Author DOUGLAS BROOKS is President of UltraCAD Design, Inc., Bellevue, WA, aleading printed circuit board design service bureau specializing in large,complex, fast turn designs for the video and data-processing industries. Hepresents signal-integrity seminars at events nationwide, including PCB DesignConferences East and West and IPC Expo. His columns &;Brookspeak&;and &;Rise Time&; appeared regularly in Printed Circuit DesignMagazine. He is author of ElectricalEngineering for the Non-Degreed Engineer.