High Speed Digital Design Handbook: Signal Integrity, Transmission Lines, PCB Layout, and High-Frequency Techniques for Practicing Engineers

By Engr Jared C. Downing

For Every Engineer Losing Sleep Over Signal Integrity

Your PCB traces are transmission lines. Your power planes resonate. Your eye diagram is closing. And your datasheet does not tell you why or what to do about it.

At 1 GHz, every wire on your board stops behaving like a wire. At 10 GHz and beyond, the rules you learned in university fail completely. This is the handbook that closes that gap the one between what school taught and what your job actually demands.

What Is Inside

14 chapters. 350+ pages. Every concept derived from first principles, then applied with worked numbers: Transmission line theory - why traces ring, reflect, and radiate, derived from Maxwell's equationsPCB stackup design - controlled impedance formulas for microstrip, stripline, and differential pairsSignal degradation - ISI, jitter, eye diagrams, bathtub curves, and BER predictionCrosstalk - NEXT, FEXT, the 3W rule, and guard trace design with quantified isolationDifferential signaling - LVDS, CML, SerDes architecture, mode conversion, and skew matchingPower delivery networks - target impedance, decoupling hierarchy, plane resonance, and SSNMeasurement techniques - TDR, VNA, oscilloscope, BERT, and compliance testingMemory interfaces - DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR5 fly-by routing, write leveling, and timing marginsSerial interfaces - PCIe Gen 1-7, USB4, 400G/800G Ethernet, SATA, SAS equalizationEMC and EMI - radiated emissions, FCC/CISPR limits, shielding, filtering, and SSCGVia and connector design - stub resonance, back-drilling, BGA fanout, and backplane budgetingSI simulation - SPICE, IBIS-AMI, 3D EM solvers, pre/post-layout correlationThermal effects - copper resistivity vs. temperature, hot-corner IL derating, PDN cold-startEmerging interfaces - PCIe Gen 6/7, UCIe die-to-die, 1.6T Ethernet, co-packaged optics
Who This Book Is ForPCB designers and layout engineers who need to know why the rules exist, not just what they areHardware engineers debugging boards that fail at temperature, speed, or compliance testFirmware and system engineers who need to speak SI fluently with their hardware counterpartsStudents and exam candidates preparing for professional engineering certificationTechnical leads who review schematics and layouts and need quantified pass/fail criteriaEvery chapter opens with learning objectives and closes with fully worked practice problems and complete boxed solutions. No concept is left as a formula without a number. No design rule is given without the physics that explains it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8FWFS4Z
• ISBN13: 9798186716525
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"