Joel I appreciate your thoughts, however I don't think I quite got my reasoning across as far as my motivation for thinning down a thick trace in some areas to fit. In this particular case there is one edge sensitive net that goes to 4 logic gates on a board that is otherwise relatively free of critical traces. My reasoning behind fattening up this trace (to the point of placing fills where possible) is to reduce the inductance of the net where possible in the hope that it's susceptibility to EMI will reduce. Now I suppose that as far as EMI immunity is concerned reflections are less important (?) particularly considering that this particular signal should only trigger in a fault condition and shut down the circuit.
In a more general case however if this had a clock on it I wonder if the introduction of these impedance changes along a trace would increase or reduce reliability (particularly with EMI). cheers > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 1:51 AM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint > > > Danny, > I have always been under the belief that if you make a part > of a trace/track > thin you might as well make the *entire* trace/track that > width. (holding > even more true in power & ground runs. in which case the thin > run could > almost act as a fuse.?) If anyone can share logic otherwise I > would really > be interested in hearing it. Or am I safe in what I think to be true? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:02 AM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Danny Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >... > > > I wonder what conclusion we can draw from any potential > > > benefits of using a thick trace for a tricky trace, but > > > thinning it down when required to get through tight > > > spots? > > > > I suppose that might depend on how one thins the trace. > Under certain > > conditions, I think such a thinning might very well result in an > > unanticipated reflective interface. That is, if one doesn't take > UltraCad's > > analysis as canon, IMO, a safer thinking process than > simply bleating a > path > > to success ;^) > > > > aj > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************** > ********** > > * Tracking #: 74A48E38F8030A4DAB0A361931AAA163D71A3EB1 > > * > > > ************************************************************** > ********** > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
