Chap 1: Economic benefits

   ease of manufacture
   more reliable

  
  Chap 2:  basics of nailing down a design 

  risk points - You need to identify risk and perform experiments that nail down what results can be expected from circuit designs
  simulations - my feelings - you only simulate what you think is an issue - expect to be surprised at least a little and probably at least one big issue on designs architectures you have not done before
  block diagragm
  *signal levels - linearity IM3 P1db
  *Noise chart if appropriate
  *spur calculations - much can be done with a simple spread sheet
  



  Chap 3: After the Disaster

  What happened?  cut out board shield areas and string them down to another board.
  Why it worked




  Chap 4: General theory of schematic capture 

  Why one page one shield area
  Use whatever paper size you need
  if the area is huge then use a block in its place 
  It is about communications to your layout guy or to yourself - no substitute for clarity
  ...these designs may pass through several sets of hands.  
  It is a visual art. Don't lay things out like a digital guy! Think Visual!
  Make a map with area estimates

  

  Chap 5:  Layer Stacks
   
    There are many variants depending on how low your spurious signals need to be
    High levels of integration - an assymtotic design > 
    Design for FCC 


    You can do it any way you like however it must be systematic. If not you or your pcb layout guy will likely err.
    Example:
      microstrip box only - only outside of box
      ground
      stripline
      ground 
      box only cross overs
      ground
      harness 1 
      harness 2
      ground



  Chap 6: Theory of signal isolation

    Faraday cages
    Cross overs are BAD
    dufferential sig - why it is used in IC's.  Visualize the paired equal currents
    200 Mhz wire wrap board with ECL ...all the waveforms were beautiful
    Wave Guides - the 1/4 wave insulator - milled chassis channels are wave guides!
    low frequency magnetic coupling 
    split ground planes
    shields
    beads
    bypass capacitors 
    regulators and big electrolytic caps
    controller impedance lines
    Paired currents - how a wave really travels - draw the current loop AKA photon
    terminated lines versus open lines - which pipe leaks? one with low pressure flow or one with high pressure water with no flow?

    microphonics - synthesizer issues- film caps
    vibration
 
    Pi filters - avoid using common ground point on grounded side of parts 


  Chap 7: Sources of spurious

    Low frequency: power rails
    High frequency: crossed lines 
    capacitive, inductive, ground current


  Chap 8: Transmission structures

    differential 
    microstrip
    stripline - need to stitch
    CPWG - can be used to transition and bring currents up to the top surface of a board