gEDA-user: Alarm clocks and switching regulators

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 19:08 -0500, John Griessen wrote:

> not supposed to let any traces cross the
> > moat.)
> > 
> That last sounds like a spell...skip it.

Isn't that one because the impedance of a track changes abruptly as it
passes a cutout in the ground plane - causing signal degradation due to
reflections, and perhaps return currents not being able to flow
underneath the signal track in the plane?

Anyway - seems this would only matter for fast edged signals.

> It has to have  a reason -- like keep the application circuit traces
> out of the moat...
> Not all...
> 
> John G
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