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Basics of SMPS Switch Mode Power Supply PCB Layout Summary of points for SMPS Layout: All Current always flows in loops… and going through a capacitor can be a part of the current loop Keep the switching power current loops as narrow in area as possible eg like close differential pair traces . Minimise the “dirty” ground the ground that carries fast rise time power switching currents …ie don’t route the “dirty” ground all over the PCB. Don’t run power switching currents through lengths of control ground all SMPS’s have controller circuits, which are connected to the ‘control’ ground …th