Analog and Interface Guide – Volume 1

The increasing percentage of digital designers and digital layout
experts in the engineering population reflects the directions that
our industry is headed. Although the emphasis on digital design
is providing significant advances in electronics end products,
there is still and will always be a portion of circuit design
that interfaces with the analog or real world. There is some
similarity in layout strategies between these two domains, but
the differences can make an easy circuit layout design less than
optimum when trying to achieve good results. In this article, we
will discuss the fundamental similarities and differences between
analog and digital layout with respect to bypass capacitors, power
supply and ground layout, voltage errors, and electromagnetic
interference (EMI) due to PCB layout.