All about inductance: article and video by Bil Herd

[BigEd]

Here's an article and video on inductance, which seems well worth linking, by Bil Herd (ex-Commodore and still an 8 bit fan)

• Inductance in PCB Layout: The Good, the Bad, and the Fugly

Article:


24 min Video:




A search for "inductance" on the forum gives a number of hits - Garth in particular mentions it in discussions of power supply routing and decoupling. So here are some links to possibly-related discussions:

• Placing bypass capacitors
• How to think about power and power supplies
• star & spider comment 2 by Garth
• star & spider comment 1 by Garth
• Distribution of power and ground pins in edge connectors comment by Garth
• Techniques for reliable high-speed digital circuits
• Last quarter of Garth's reference page "Construction: Avoiding AC-Performance Problems"

Edit: see also

• Jack Ganssle shows how edge times, rather than frequency, are important, and so fast parts can be a problem even in slow systems. Via Garth's post here.

(Overall, reference Garth's post here.)

[BigEd]

I see three books are recommended too - the middle one being expensive or difficult to get hold of:

• MECL System Design Handbook – Motorola
  Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems – Henry Ott
  High Speed Digital Design – Johnson & Graham

That last is one which Garth has mentioned.

[BigEd]

And this free-to-download ebook is mentioned in the comments:
http://www.thehighspeeddesignbook.com/

Quote:

To download Right The First Time, please complete the following information. Upon receipt of your information, we will send you the link to download the entire book. You will also be notified of updates and additions to the book as they become available.

[Chromatix]

I've actually read "High Speed Digital Design". It's one of the things that went missing during one of my moves. Very educational.

[Tor]

BigEd wrote:

And this free-to-download ebook is mentioned in the comments:
http://www.thehighspeeddesignbook.com/

Quote:

To download Right The First Time, please complete the following information. Upon receipt of your information, we will send you the link to download the entire book. You will also be notified of updates and additions to the book as they become available.

Unfortunately it's not even necessary to be cynic (anymore) to translate that to "we'll sell your email address to some spammer and somebody will forever be filling your inbox with junk". So I stopped when I reached that point - something I should have done much more of in the past, looking at what happened to my inbox afterwards.

[BigEd]

Hey, there's always throwaway email accounts - I use mailinator.

[Oneironaut]

I just tested the form with my usual bogus answers, and it will let you continue to the download once filled.
Just type anything in the fields, and use zuck@fb.com as the email address.

Brad

[BigEd]

(I just added a link at the bottom of the head post - thanks Garth)

[GARTHWILSON]

Dr. Howard Johnson's articles which used to be free online can be found free again, archived, at https://web.archive.org/web/20120302190 ... eyword.htm . (This comes, finally, from Ed's occasional nudging to learn to use the WayBack Machine. ) I tried to edit all my posts' Dr. Howard Johnson article links with the archive URL correction. Hopefully I got them all.