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Grounding isn’t all that important, right? It’s just the foundation that we
build all of our electronic designs on. But what about those signals! The
truth is, grounding is the most important part of your entire design, and we
all tend to ignore it until it becomes a huge problem. Without a stable
ground, you’ll never pass clean signals from one device to another.
Maybe you’ve designed a digital device with some variance in your ground
and data can still move safely around. However, consider something like a
high-reliability medical system. If that device gets zapped with a high-
voltage ESD charge, you better hope you properly designed your ground. In
sensitive electronic designs such as these, proper grounding can mean the
difference between life and death.
Here are 8 PCB grounding rules to live your engineering life by, keep them in
your back pocket!
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Many designers only think about where their signal is traveling to, but every
signal has a return path to take through ground. Both the sending and
return path of your signal will have the same current which can affect power
stability and ground bounce. You can use Kirchhoff’s Current Law to
understand how current will travel through your circuit.
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