Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Focuses on a combination of digital and analog circuit theory. Helps engineers who work with digital systems, shorten their product development cycles and fix their latest high-speed design problems. DLC: Digital electronics.

Rating : - Excellent reference book for today's engineer
There was a time when all that was needed to get a digital PCB to work was to get all the nets connected correctly without any shorts. But with a high speed circuit, the PCB nets can be connected correctly and the PCB still won't work when it's built! That's because at the speeds that circuits run at today, circuit traces are no longer just connections; Instead, they inductors, transmission lines, RF stubs and antennas! To many designers, RF circuit design is like black magic (hence the title, a Handbook of Black Magic). But this book gives you an insight into what a high speed circuit is doing, and how to deal with these issues successfully.

Chapter 5 (Ground Planes and Layer Stacking) is especially useful for the high speed PCB designer. Understand this chapter and you will be well on your way to consistently getting high speed PCB layouts to work on the first try. You will also have an understanding of what to fix on PCB layouts that don't work.