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Subject: When to use large ground planes

From: "ghidera2000 <ghidera2000@...>" <ghidera2000@...>
Date: 2003-01-14

I often see ground traces expanding out to cover large areas of
PCBs. I have a half-idea that this is to clean up the ground when
using analog parts, is this correct? If not, whats the actual
reason? How much does it really help?