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Effect of Ground Pattern Size on FM‐Band Crosstalk Between Two Parallel Signal Traces of Printed Circuit Boards for Vehicles

It is well known that electromagnetic disturbances in vehicle‐mounted radios are mainly caused by conducted noise currents flowing through wiring harnesses from vehicle‐mounted printed circuit boards (PCBs) with common ground patterns containing slits. To suppress the noise current outflow from these kinds of PCBs, we previously measured noise current outflow from simple two‐layer PCBs having two parallel signal traces and different ground patterns with and without slits to reveal that making slits with open ends on the ground patterns in parallel with the traces can reduce the conducted noise currents. In the present study, using FDTD simulation we investigated the reduction effects of ground pattern size on the FM‐band crosstalk noise levels between two parallel signal traces by using four types of simple PCB models having different ground patterns formed in different numbers but containing the same planar dimension slits parallel to the traces, in addition to two types of PCB models with different ground patterns divided into two parts parallel to the traces. It was found that the crosstalk noise currents for the above six types of PCBs decrease by 6.9 to 8.5 dB compared to the PCB which has a plain ground with no slits. We found that a contributing factor to the above‐mentioned crosstalk reduction is reduction of the mutual inductance between the two parallel traces. In addition, in this study it is interesting to note that noise current leakage from PCBs is more significantly reduced when the size of the return ground of each signal trace is small. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 186(1): 11–17, 2014; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.22316