Selected EMC and Signal Integrity Resources

 

Resource Type

Location Info

Comments

Website

High-Speed Digital Design
http://signalintegrity.com

Comprehensive website for EMC and high-speed design.

Textbook

Johnson and Graham, High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice-Hall, 1993

Excellent textbook. Collects together in one place all the wisdom and lore found in textbooks, datasheets, and application notes. More focused on useful rules of thumb vs. a lot of theory

Article

Why Digital Engineers Don’t Believe in EMC
http://www.sigcon.com/news/noEMC.htm

 

Article

Berrie, “Defensive Design of Printed Circuit Boards,” IEEE Spectrum, Sep 1999, pp 76-81.

 

On-line

Guidelines for PCB Design (http://www.ipc.org/)

 

Java applet

Visualize Transmission Line Effects http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Courses/F97/35210/java/Transline/tr_lines.htm

Interactive applet lets you adjust source, load, and transmission line impedances, and then observe the effects of a propagating voltage wave.