How to consider impedance matching when designing high-speed PCB design schematics?


When designing high-speed PCB circuits, impedance matching is one of the design elements. The impedance value has an absolute relationship with the wiring method, such as walking on the surface layer (microstrip) or inner layer (stripline/double stripline), distance from the reference layer (power layer or ground layer), wiring width, PCB material, etc. Both will affect the characteristic impedance value of the trace.

That is to say, the impedance value can be determined after wiring. Generally, simulation software cannot take into account some wiring conditions with discontinuous impedance due to the limitation of the circuit model or the mathematical algorithm used. At this time, only some terminators (termination), such as series resistance, can be reserved on the schematic diagram. Alleviate the effect of discontinuity in trace impedance. The real solution to the problem is to try to avoid impedance discontinuities when wiring.