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Offline FartingNoveltyToyEngineerTopic starter

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How to isolate analog ground
« on: November 28, 2025, 09:22:42 pm »
I am working on new version of a bluetooth speaker layout. Previously i made a cut to the ground plane in effort to isolate the dac section from all switching noises but
i now realize this might have been a bad idea. So how to do this better? How bad this kind of practice is in terms of EMI? Attached is a sketch which shows where all
parts are going to be located and screenshot from the old dac layout/upper right corner. Thanks!

 

Offline thm_w

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Re: How to isolate analog ground
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2025, 10:32:19 pm »
You have a signal crossing the cut on the left side, which is not good.
Can you show top and bottom layers.

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Offline Doctorandus_P

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Re: How to isolate analog ground
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2025, 01:08:53 am »
Splitting GND planes has been deprecated for 10+ years. (Nearly?) always it's better to a single big GND plane combined with physical separation between the "noisy part" and the "sensitive part" of the PCB.
 


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