Dr. Eric Bogatin, Dean of Signal Integrity Academy, is back for some awesome discussion about bad PCB design guidelines. How to spot them to avoid ruining your design? This is going to be fun and insightful! Make sure to check the show notes and additional resources below. Watch until the end. Our favorite Dean has some perks for our listeners.

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Show Highlights:

Eric’s AltiumLive Presentation

Pathological Design Features

Demonstration of the 2D Field Solver built-in for free in Altium Designer

Your intuition + PCB design tool can make or break your PCB design performance

Most Common Sources of Noise

Ground bounce as an extreme case of crosstalk

Design structures that can strongly contribute to EMI failures

Eric Explains “transparent interconnect”

Best measurement practice and routing correctly

Is an Arduino board really for beginners?

EMI Problems caused by split planes—the trifecta, you get reflection noise, you get crosstalk noise, you get EMI noise out of it

Eric Bogatin, Steve Sandler, and Larry Smith debunked PCB design myths and legends—the Myth of Three Capacitor Values

Power integrity becoming Signal Integrity

What is Rad-hard?

Reliability concerns in aerospace technology and automotive systems

Fiber in vehicle and fiber base radar could be the solution

Eric answers, What do you think about right-angle traces?

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Links and Resources:

Article: The Myth of Three Capacitor Values 

Signal Integrity Journal

Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics

Should You Worry About 90 Degree Bends in Circuit Board Traces?

Previous Podcast Episode with Eric Bogatin

Why You Should Stop Hanging on to Legacy Design Rules

Eric Bogatin Debunks Common Misconceptions About Transmission Lines

Signal Integrity Expert Eric Bogatin on Best Measurement Practices

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