VRPW-60-70 DesignCon 2018 PDN Tutorial

These are the slides from the half day Design Con 2018 tutorial with Larry Smith and Eric Bogatin.

The zip file includes the pdf handouts and the PRC spreadsheet described in our book, Principles of PDN.

Here is the outline:

• What is PDN
• Why is PDN so confusing
• The three most important principles of the PDN: role of RLC circuits
• Modeling the PDN from the chip;sperspective
• The three most important transient current waveforms and the voltage noise they create
• The on-die  voltage noise from PDN transient currents.
• How to engineer robust PDNs
• The most important PDN design rules