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The following collection of articles represents those written in the past five years.  For information on related articles written prior that time, please contact info@speedingedge.com

Articles by Lee Ritchey

Author

Date

Anatomy of a Plated Through Hole

Ritchey

8/01

Floor Planners: The Centerpiece of Virtual Prototyping

Ritchey

7/01

Testlab Article, PCB Design Magazine

Ritchey

1/01

Busses: What are they and how do they work?, Printed Circuit Design Magazine

Ritchey

10/00

PCB Routers and Routing Methods

Ritchey

12/99

A Tutorial on PCB Materials

Ritchey

11/99

Differential Signalling Doesn't Require Differential Impedance

Ritchey

3/99

IPC Controlled Impedance

Ritchey

March 2003

Simulation and Analysis: A beginner's guide to what they are and why they are needed

Ritchey

6/98

Simulation and Analysis Tools

Ritchey

4/98

2D Field Solvers and Predicting Impedance

Ritchey

11/96

List of Reference Materials for PCB Design

Ritchey

10/96

Oh Lord, We Forgot Our Map and We're Stuck in Lodi Stack

Ritchey

10/96

Why do We Have So Much Trouble Getting the Impedance?

Ritchey

9/96

Documenting a PCB Design to Get it Built Right and Verifiable

Ritchey

8/96

Leaving It Up to the FAB Shop and Other Dangerous Behaviors

Ritchey

7/96

Proven Methods Assure Signal Integrity

Ritchey

96

What's Good Enough? High-Speed Design Rules

Ritchey

4/94

Articles by Other Authors

Author

Date

Partitioning and Layout of a Mixed Signal PCB,  PC Design

Henry Ott

6/01

High End Digital Systems Give a Thumbs Down to Rules of Thumb

Michael C Grimes

6/00

Power Distribution System Design Methodology and Capacitor Selection for Modern CMOS Technology, IEEE Press.

Smith et al

 

High Speed Digital System Design

Hall, Hall, McCall, Wiley

2000

High-Speed Design's Ratchet Man

Goering

12/98

The Ultimate Board, A Study of Laser Vias vs. Build Up

Smedley et al

5/98

Understanding Surface Finishes

Prasad

5/98

Electrical Characteristics of HS TLs with Various Diel

Montgomery

4/98

Take the Mystery out of AC Termination

Nemek

9/97

Incorporating BGAs into High Volume Operations

Partridge

8/97

Primer on High Performance Laminates with Cost and Property

Neusch

6/97

High Performance Connectors - Gnr to Signal Problems

Modinger et al

2/97

High Performance Connectors - The Weak Link

Modinger et al

2/97

Permittivity/Dielectric Constant: Do the Math

Neves

11/96

Controlling Impedance and the TDR

Neves

9/96

Selecting the Appropriate Test Pattern for Fab Defect

Rhodes

9/96

Test Your Spread Spectrum Products

Schwarts

8/96

Table of PCB Tolerances

Multek

1/95

Effects of 20H Rule and Shielding Vias on Electromagnetic Radiation on Printed Circuit Boards Chen and Fang  
90 Degree Corners, the Final Turn Brooks 1/98