PCB Design — question 9 of 10
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Your board has a solid ground plane on layer 2, but a connector and some through-hole mounting hardware force a keepout that splits the ground plane into two regions for about an inch, right under a differential signal pair that has to cross that gap. What actually happens electrically when the signal's return current hits that gap, and what would you do about it given you can't move the connector?