Rules of Thumb

Rules of Thumb Published in EDN:

Rules of Thumb #0: Using Rules of Thumb Wisely
Rule of Thumb #1: Bandwidth of a signal from its rise time
Rule of Thumb #2: Signal bandwidth from clock frequency
Rule of Thumb #3 Signal speed on an interconnect
Rule of Thumb #4: Skin depth of copper
Rule of Thumb #5: Capacitance per length of 50 Ohm transmission lines in FR4
Rule of Thumb #6: Total loop inductance/length in 50 Ohm transmission lines
Rule of Thumb #7: Total inductance in the return path
Rule of Thumb #8: How to estimate ground bounce in a connector
Rule of Thumb #9: Loss in a channel
Rule of Thumb #10: How much attenuation is too much?
Rule of Thumb #11: What is the bandwidth of a high speed serial-link signal?
Rule of Thumb #12: How much return loss is too much?
Rule of Thumb #13: Sheet resistance of copper foil
Rule of Thumb #14: Resistance of a copper trace
Rule of Thumb #15: Estimating wire & loop inductance
Rule of Thumb #16: Sheet inductance of a cavity
Rule of Thumb #17: The quarter-wave stub frequency
Rule of Thumb #18: How long a stub is too long?
Rule of Thumb #19: Crosstalk: How much is too much?
Rule of Thumb #20: How far is far enough? Signal line spacing for acceptable near end crosstalk
Rule of Thumb #21: How to engineer acceptable far-end crosstalk
Rule of Thumb #22: What is the frequency of the S21 dip in microstrip?
Rule of Thumb #23: When to worry about a capacitive discontinuity
Rule of Thumb #24: When to worry about trace corners
Rule of Thumb #25: How much is impedance affected by an adjacent trace?
Rule of Thumb #26: What is the ringing period on an unterminated line?
Rule of Thumb #27: What is the aspect ratio for 50Ω microstrip?
Rule of Thumb #28: What is the aspect ratio for 50Ω stripline?
Rule of Thumb #29: What is the spatial extent of an edge?
Rule of Thumb #30: What is the resonant frequency of a cavity?
Rule of Thumb #31: How much common current is too much?
Rule of Thumb #32: How much mode conversion is too much?