DW1000 IC PCB Schematic Layout - VDDPA1 & VDDPA2

Whether the difference between option Andy and option DWM1003 is important will come down to the exact nature of the current variation on the VDDPA1 pin. Personally I’m paranoid on this sort of thing, I’ve seen power systems like this give unreliable and poor behavior due to lack of capacitance after the ferrite. I’ve never seen systems fail due to too much capacitance there. So I tend towards more rather than less as a precaution.

On our board we didn’t have the ferrites and ended up with the schematic as per the datasheet option with the layout shown below. This seems to be working fine for us so far.

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