Patent ID: 6657291
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
An electronic package having a plurality of conducting planes, said conducting planes including a power plane and a ground plane that, together, serve as a power distribution system, said power plane and ground plane exhibiting discontinuities that comprise at least one of: a periphery of a plane or an aperture through a plane, said electronic package further comprising:a plurality of circuit elements connected only between said discontinuities of the power plane and the ground plane and at approximately uniformly spaced-apart intervals along each discontinuity, to minimize transient currents and voltages therethrough, said circuit elements each consisting of a capacitor in series with a resistor, said resistor having an impedance approximately equal to a characteristic impedance of said power distribution system at said discontinuities so as to absorb transient signals and prevent reflections thereof from said discontinuities.