Chapter 38

Layout and Grounding for Analog and Digital Circuits

Bonnie Baker

The ratio of digital designers to analog designers is increasing. This is not a news flash. Although the emphasis on digital design is providing significant advances in electronic end products, there is still and will always be a portion of circuit design that interfaces with the analog or real world. Could it be possible that analog layout differs from digital layout techniques? There is some similarity in layout strategies between these two domains. The differences can make an easy circuit layout design less than optimum if you are trying to achieve good results. In this chapter, we will discuss five topics. The first topic covers fundamental similarities and differences ...

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