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Advantech SOM-ETX Design Guide
IRRX C59
IR Connector
SOM-ETX
IRRX
VCC
IRTX
GND
IRTX C61
VCC
Ferrite Bead
Ferrite Bead
Ferrite Bead
I/O ground
Digital ground
We need seperate IR ground to I/O ground, if
the IR connector was on the I/O plane.
Figure 5-41
5.13.3 Layout Guideline
IR layout requirement is not restricted strictly. Because the IR frequency was not
higher than other fast buses. So, the layout has low priority in layout procedure. One
thing we can notice was the power layout trace width, 40mil trace can flow about 1A
current.
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