Cosmin Iorga, President, NoiseCoupling.com

The understanding of noise coupling phenomena is essential to semiconductor design engineers who must deal with the challenges of integrating more and more functionality on a single chip. This tutorial provides a practical approach to the analysis of noise-coupling mechanisms at device, chip substrate, package, and PCB levels; the implementation of efficient suppression techniques; and the simulation of noise coupling in various stages of the design flow. In addition to conventional suppression and simulation techniques, circuit-level noise cancellation methodologies and practical procedures for modeling the noise coupling early in the architectural stages of the design are also presented.