Scott Dorsey
November 12th 04, 06:46 PM
David Grant > wrote:
>I'm a 4th year E.E student designing/building a class d audio amp for my
>design project course. Our curriculum hasn't included anything on (or even
>mentioned) PCB design, so I'm hoping for a little help here. How important
>is part placement and trace routing in the quality of the finished product?
Pretty important.
>Where could I go to get some beginner info on this sort of thing (my online
>searches bring up nothing but explanations of PCB design rules, etc)?
Your department doesn't have a PCB layout class? Some good discussion of
layout for conventional amplifier design can be found in Doug Self's series
of articles on amp design in Wireless World.
Your issues are a little different since your goal is to keep trash from
leaking into the output and keep the output from coupling into the modulator.
There is an Intel application note on RFI issues which you might want to look
at, which discusses digital layout and design.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>I'm a 4th year E.E student designing/building a class d audio amp for my
>design project course. Our curriculum hasn't included anything on (or even
>mentioned) PCB design, so I'm hoping for a little help here. How important
>is part placement and trace routing in the quality of the finished product?
Pretty important.
>Where could I go to get some beginner info on this sort of thing (my online
>searches bring up nothing but explanations of PCB design rules, etc)?
Your department doesn't have a PCB layout class? Some good discussion of
layout for conventional amplifier design can be found in Doug Self's series
of articles on amp design in Wireless World.
Your issues are a little different since your goal is to keep trash from
leaking into the output and keep the output from coupling into the modulator.
There is an Intel application note on RFI issues which you might want to look
at, which discusses digital layout and design.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."