The definitive high-speed design resource for every PCB designer In this book, renowned engineer, author, and seminar leader Douglas Brooks teaches PCB designers how to successfully design boards for any high-speed application. Brooks begins with an easy-to-understand electronics primer for every PCB designer, then offers practical, real-world solutions for every important signal-integrity problem.Based on his legendary seminars, this book offers even more design rules, specific recommendations, examples, illustrations, and diagrams. Coverage includes- Essential electronics concepts: propagation, current, resistance, reactance, impedance, phase shifts, and more EMI principles and controls: loop area, uncontrolled differential currents, and common mode currents Controlling signal reflections: transmission lines, proper terminations, and trace layer design Power system stability bypass capacitor decoupling : Traditional approaches, and techniques based on power-system impedance Eliminating forward crosstalk, and eliminating or controlling backwards crosstalk Power-system conditioning: power-system plane design and correct board stackups Lossy lines and eye diagrams: skin effects, dielectric absorption, and more Two full chapters of simulation illustrations-ideal for those without access to high-speed simulation tools

Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design

Engineering & Transportation

Brooks, Douglas

Engineering

PRENTICE/HALL

This book is primarily aimed at circuit board designers. Typically these people have either no formal engineering education or a 2-year associates degree. A few have formal 4-year degrees and find themselves now designing boards either on a part time basis (as an adjunct to their normal design activities) or perhaps full-time. Almost none of them have ever received any formal education in signal integrity issues as related to board design, principally because almost no such training is offered--anywhere! Therefore, there is a need for a basic, comprehensive text that covers the causes of these problems and their solutions.

Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design (paperback) (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)

The Plain-English Guide to Electronics and Current Flow for Every PCB Designer Today, PCB designers must deal with issues such as crosstalk and EMI-–issues that were once associated only with components. This requires electronics knowledge that many PCB designers never gain through formal training. In PCB Currents, renowned PCB designer Douglas Brooks teaches these essentials descriptively, in plain English, with as little reliance on mathematics as possible. Building on his widely praised seminars, Brooks explains what current is, how it flows, and how it reacts. He begins by reviewing the nature of current, and then explains current flow in basic circuits, discusses sources that supply and drive current, and addresses the unique problems associated with current on PCBs. Brooks concludes by thoroughly illuminating signal integrity issues caused by current flow. He offers practical design solutions for each common type of problem, as well as for complex challenges involving very high frequency harmonics and very short wavelengths. Coverage includes • Current: its fundamental nature, basic definitions, and key concepts • Five fundamental laws of current, including Kirchoff’s law and Ohm’s law • Basic circuit concepts: resistive circuits, reactive circuits, and impedance • Voltage and current sources: Where electrons come from and why they move • Current-related PCB issues: temperature, transmission lines, reflections, coupled currents, power distribution, skin effect, dielectric losses, and vias • Solutions for signal integrity issues caused by current flow, from on-board inductance and apparent resistance changes to more complex problems The text is written to be accessible and valuable for PCB designers at all levels of experience, whether they have engineering training or not.

PCB Currents: How They Flow, How They React (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series'sub Series: Prentice Hall Signal Integrity Library)

PCB Currents: How They Flow, How They React

Pearson

Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Complete Book of Personal Training delivers exactly what the title promises and more, making it the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for you as a personal trainer, whether you are a newcomer to the field or have a well-established business.
The book is truly a complete resource. It's full of information about working with clients and designing programs, and it's also a practical guide to all aspects of the personal training business. The Complete Book of Personal Training will help you in the all aspects of your profession: -Learn applicable information on fitness testing and assessment.
-Identify your clients' goals and create fitness tests specifically for them.
-Properly train and help special populations.
-Understand the business side of personal training, including marketing yourself as a trainer, getting and retaining clients, and learning time management.
-Learn how to expand your business. Noted author, educator, and personal trainer Douglas Brooks digs deep into the world of personal training, offering solutions to the challenges that trainers face in daily life and providing answers to many of the questions personal trainers ask throughout their careers. More than just a training manual, this text explores the best ways to run your business—from marketing and promotions to record keeping and retirement planning. The book includes a thorough index to help readers quickly locate any topic, and more than 100 photos accurately illustrate proper techniques for dozens of exercises.
The Complete Book of Personal Training contains something for every personal trainer. It's the first reference of its kind to provide all the information you need to start, run, and grow a personal training business or career. The text is an essential tool to help you solve the daily organizational and business challenges of personal training.

The Complete Book of Personal Training

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Scientifically based methods for helping clients of personal trainers achieve goals - from fat loss and cardiovascular conditioning to strength and flexibility training.

Program Design for Personal Trainers: Bridging Theory into Application

Sports & Outdoors

Training

With expert analysis of technique for more than 100 resistance training exercises, Effective Strength Training is just the guide you need to ensure these exercises are performed correctly and with minimal risk. 
Drawing on the latest scientific principles and theories related to resistance training, Effective Strength Training provides the “how” and the “why” behind the proper performance of popular upper-body, lower-body, and trunk exercises. By understanding the purpose and correct form for each exercise, you can gain the full benefit each exercise provides and avoid injury. Whether you teach strength training or do it yourself, you'll find new and helpful information that you can put to use. 
Douglas Brooks, one of the top personal trainers in the United States, questions the safety of controversial exercises such as the upright row, dipping movements, cable exercises, and machine chest presses. After putting these exercises to the test of objective scientific evaluation, he then recommends valuable guidelines for safe use. 
Effective Strength Training also addresses high-risk situations where exercises fall short of safe biomechanical standards. If you're dealing with orthopedic limitations—such as knee or back problems—or challenging training goals, these solutions will help you make prudent, corrective modifications. 
Practical and to the point, this book also presents the latest information related to resistance training program design and defines and discusses topics such as training systems, periodization principles, and a continuum of training programs. 
Effective Strength Training is full of no-nonsense strategies and expert advice that will simplify the design and teaching of programs to meet the best interests of your clients or students. And, if you're a strength trainer yourself—especially if you're seeking certification by the International Weightlifting Association—this resource will help you successfully reach all your training goals.

Effective Strength Training: Analysis and Technique for Upper-Body, Lower-Body, and Trunk Exercises

Are you struggling to develop an exercise program? Having trouble sticking with your current program? Dissatisfied with the results you're seeing-or not seeing? Your Personal Trainer gives you customized, expert training advice that will help you get the results you want. And it does so at a fraction of the cost of hiring your own trainer! 
Douglas Brooks-one of the top personal trainers in the United States-shares his no-nonsense, results-oriented approach to training. He offers no quick fixes, but what he does offer are proven effective exercise programs and techniques similar to those he prescribes to his clients every day. 
Your Personal Trainer provides individually tailored programs, structured workouts, and planned training cycles, all featuring the latest exercise information available to help you achieve your fitness goals. Here's just a sampling of the many features you'll find:
- Guidelines for scheduling your workouts - Recommended stretches and strength exercises - Interval training models - Warm-up and cool-down techniques - Advice on cross-training - Nutrition tips - Hints for building in rest and recovery - Self-tests for tracking your progress
Through it all, Brooks will keep you motivated and make your exercise program fun, not drudgery. Regardless of your fitness level, the time-tested techniques in Your Personal Trainer will give you a training advantage and empower you to take control of your fitness and health.
If you're a personal trainer, you too can use Your Personal Trainer to better serve your clients. You'll find state-of-the-art advice on how to build a training regimen around your clients' specific needs, limitations, and goals. Plus, you'll learn Brooks' techniques for motivating clients.

Your Personal Trainer

A very important part of printed circuit board (PCB) design involves sizing traces and vias to carry the required current. This exciting new book will explore how hot traces and vias should be and what board, circuit, design, and environmental parameters are the most important. PCB materials (copper and dielectrics) and the role they play in the heating and cooling of traces are covered. The IPC curves found in IPC 2152, the equations that fit those curves and computer simulations that fit those curves and equations are detailed.Sensitivity analyses that show what happens when environments are varied, including adjacent traces and planes, changing trace lengths, and thermal gradients are presented. Via temperatures and what determines them are explored, along with fusing issues and what happens when traces are overloaded. Voltage drops across traces and vias, the thermal effects going around right-angle corners, and frequency effects are covered. Readers learn how to measure the thermal conductivity of dielectrics and how to measure the resistivity of copper traces and why many prior attempts to do so have been doomed to failure. Industrial CT Scanning, and whether or not they might replace microsections for measuring trace parameters are also considered.

PCB Design Guide to Via and Trace Currents and Temperatures

Adam, Johannes

Artech House Publishers

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