High Speed Digital Design is a great book (a "handbook of black magic," as its subtitle professes), and it is a nice complement to Horowitz and Hill's The Art o

High Speed Digital Design is a great book (a "handbook of black magic," as its subtitle professes), and it is a nice complement to Horowitz and Hill's The Art of Electronics. You're exactly right that the former addresses way more analog details than the title suggests, and at high frequencies the analog stuff really matters. A passive component is never simply a capacitor, resistor, or inductor. We just call it one based on the dominant characteristic. At particular frequencies the characteristics can change so much that designs have to take the difference into account. Application notes and manufacturer references also contain a wealth of information. TI's Op Amps for Everyone (a great reference in general) has a chapter (17) devoted to PCB design: http://web.mit.edu/6.101/www/reference/op_amps_everyone.pdf http://web.mit.edu/6.101/www/reference/op_amps_everyone.pdf Beyond comprehensive references, you can pick up things from articles as you go; I learned the trick of using two back-to-back Schottky diodes to reduce the ground plane potential difference to <0.3V from a PDF like this one: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt499/slyt499.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt499/slyt499.pdf Trade magazines with articles are another great resource, like Circuit Cellar or EDN.