Strongly recommended · for some experience

What Every PCB Designer Should Know - Return Current Path (with Eric Bogatin)

Robert Feranec

Why people recommend it

Eric Bogatin explains with Robert Feranec where return current really flows and why split planes cause trouble; repeatedly recommended for anyone routing signals between layers.

Watch for: the return current section from 8:05

In their words

Watch all of this: [video] (and any other video where Robert interviews either Rick Hartley, or Eric Bogatin).

pgvoorhees on electronics.stackexchange.com, May 2023. CC BY-SA.

Here is another video that talks about return currents in greater detail: [video] - if you want you can skip to 8:05.

Frodyne on electronics.stackexchange.com, May 2021. CC BY-SA.

If you liked this