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This page is the home of the QuietPower columns: power distribution  tidbits, recommendations and best-practice overviews written for the PCB Design 007 web portal.  The articles appear regularly in English and in Chineese (Mandarin).  The most recent article always appears on the PCB Design 007 web portal, and the English version gets archived here, when the next article is published at PCB Design 007.

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for topics you would like to see, please write to: istvan.novak@ieee.org


Be Careful with Tlines in Plane Models
Simulating Planes with SPICE
Does Dk Matter for Power Distribution?
How Thin Laminates Suppress Resonances
Resonances in Power Planes
Thin Laminates: Buried Capacitance or What?
Reflections on DesignCon 2011
Power Distribution and the Big Bang
Do Not Perforate Planes Unnecessarily
Don't Double-Count Plane Inductance
Inductance of Bypass Capacitors, Part III
Inductance of Bypass Capacitors, Part II
Inductance of Bypass Capacitors, Part I
Why PI Design is More Difficult than SI
Why S11 VNA Measurements Don’t Work for PDN Measurements
PDN Measurements: Reducing Cable-Braid Loop Error
Calculating Basic Resonances in the PDN
How Many Bypass Capacitors Do We Need?