Yoda’s advice applies just as well to some aspect of circuit board design as it does to mastering the Force. There are many myths and myth-conceptions about the best design practices for circuit board layout which are “legacy code”. They have been with us in training manuals, in examples, and in reference designs. Once inserted into a design, everyone seems to think it must be the right way of doing design. I will show you five myth-conceptions and why you should unlearn what you have learned as a recommended design feature, such as using copper pours, power planes, avoiding 90 deg bends, three different value decoupling capacitors, and using split ground planes.



00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:30 - The Most Important Idea Behind PCB Design
00:05:10 - Power Integrity in Interconnect Performance
00:06:00 - Switching Noise on the Power Rail
00:09:43 - Decoupling Capacitor
00:11:45 - Measuring Switching Noise and Utilizing a Decoupling Capacitor
00:25:50 - Selecting Decoupling Capacitors
00:35:20 - Selecting Capacitor…