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PCB Design Review 2025-02-12 2025-02-12

PCB Design Review

Rise Time vs Length

The rule of thumb is that a track length shall be shorter than 1/6th of the rise time. According to this comment the rule of thumb can be applied like this (example with 100MHz signal): First lets calculate the wave length in free space:

\lambda = \frac{c}{f} = \frac{3*10^{8}}{100*10^6} = 3m

In a PCB you can take roughly \frac{\lambda}{2} as the wavelength, which would be 1.5m. One sixth of this results in roughly 25cm.