The definitive high-speed design resource for every PCB designer In this book, renowned engineer, author, and seminar leader Douglas Brooks teaches PCB designers how to successfully design boards for any high-speed application. Brooks begins with an easy-to-understand electronics primer for every PCB designer, then offers practical, real-world solutions for every important signal-integrity problem.Based on his legendary seminars, this book offers even more design rules, specific recommendations, examples, illustrations, and diagrams. Coverage includes– Essential electronics concepts: propagation, current, resistance, reactance, impedance, phase shifts, and more EMI principles and controls: loop area, uncontrolled differential currents, and common mode currents Controlling signal reflections: transmission lines, proper terminations, and trace layer design Power system stability (bypass capacitor decoupling): Traditional approaches, and techniques based on power-system impedance Eliminating forward crosstalk, and eliminating or controlling backwards crosstalk Power-system conditioning: power-system plane design and correct board stackups Lossy lines and eye diagrams: skin effects, dielectric absorption, and more Two full chapters of simulation illustrations –ideal for those without access to high-speed simulation tools