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1. Practical analog design rules

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  • When selecting parallel capacitors, remember that as the larger value capacitor goes inductive, the smaller value capacitor is still capacitive. At a particular frequency, an LC circuit is developed between the two capacitors, and an infinite impedance could be generated with no decoupling provided at all. When this occurs, single-capacitor bypassing is generally sufficient.
  • Keep lead lengths of capacitors as short as possible to minimize lead length inductance.
  • Place parallel bypass capacitors on all power and ground input connections on the printed circuit board in addition to components with edge rates faster than 3 ns.
  • Place clocks and oscillators in a separate clock generation area. Make provisions for a localized ground plane and doghouse (case shield) around the oscillator and related high speed, high current drivers. Locate clock generation circuits near a ground stitch location.
  • Always install the clock circuits (oscillators, crystals, drivers etc.) directly on the printed circuit board, not on sockets.
  • The wider the trace, the less impedance presented to the circuit.

1. Practical analog design rules

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