Suppression of Wideband Simultaneous Switching Noise Through Application of a Partial Electromagnetic Band-Gap Structure in Multilayer Printed Circuit Boards

Adding mushroom-like electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures to split power planes can produce wideband suppression of ground bounce noise in high-speed printed circuit boards. Practical equations are used to estimate the stop-band performance of EBG structures within parallel power planes. In this article, a mushroom-like EBG and power-bus structure are derived using the modified nodal analysis (MNA) method. Equations calculated using the MNA method are easily programmable. The partial EBG structures developed in this article can suppress noise from electromagnetic (EM) interference within parallel plates in the power bus. Several examples below show that similar results can be obtained in measurements, in EM simulations software, and in derived equations. The proposed structure enhanced the suppression of simultaneous switching noise coupling (≤-40 dB) within the range of 260 MHz to 10 GHz.