Achieving both wideband mitigation of ground bounce noise and good signal integrity by novel period structure

A double-square-ring slot period structure is proposed, designed in the power plane of the circuit board to suppress the ground bounce noise (GBN) in high-speed circuits. The novel design is based on the ring splits that connect the adjacent square patches in the power plane, which results in a wideband mitigation of the GBN ranging from 500 MHz to 5.5 GHz. The impact of the etched structures on the signal integrity (SI) is also investigated. Results show that good SI can be maintained while using the novel period structure in the power plane, and further improvement of the SI performance can be obtained by employing differential pairs of microstrip line for signals.