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How to Get 3-port S-parameters From a 2-port VNA Measurement
S-parameters are fundamental quantities in signal integrity, and an ability to understand them from measurement or analysis is very important. If you have a 3-port network, like a power divider or circulator, it may appear that you must use a 3-port VNA to measure these S-parameters. It is always acceptable to measure between two ports, but you need to know what exactly it is you are measuring. As it turns out, you can use a 2-port VNA
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Addressing Skew Sources in High Speed PCBs
Sometimes, when we talk about skew, we aren't as specific as we should be. Most discussions of skew and jitter deal with the type of skew incurred during routing, namely due to length mismatches in differential pairs and fiber weave-induced skew. In fact, there are many different sources of skew that contribute to total jitter on an interconnect, and it's important to quantify these in serial and parallel buses that require precise timing control
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What is the Impedance of Length-Tuning Structures?
Length tuning impedance is difficult to calculate, but you can minimize the impact of length tuning structure impedance deviations with some simple differential pair design strategies.
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Pin-Package Delay and Via Delay in High Speed Length Tuning
Take a look at the inside of some integrated circuit packages, and you’ll find a number of wires bonded to the semiconductor die and the pads at the edge of the component's package. As a signal traverses makes its way along an interconnect and into a destination circuit, signals need to travel across these bond wires and pads before they are interpreted as a logic state. As you look around the edge of an IC, these bond wires can have different
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Advanced Topics in High-Speed Design
This track is for the engineer who understands high-speed design requirements and wants to learn design practices to help ensure
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Fundamentals of High-Speed Design
This track is for the designer who is new to high-speed layout and routing practices and wants to understand how
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Best Practices for High-Frequency PCB Materials Selection
High frequency PCB design can seem esoteric, and I've heard many an engineer describe it as "black magic"! The subject is also a bit confusing, especially once someone asks which frequencies could be reasonably considered "high". The reality is that some of the challenges present in high speed design also appear in high frequency design, but we think about them in different ways. Before you do anything inside the layout for a high-speed or RF PCB
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Types of PCB Copper Foil for High-Frequency Design
Does your design need smooth PCB copper foil? It all depends on the frequency range you’re working in. Learn more in this article.
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PCB Transmission Line Impedance Calculators
We’ve compiled a set of transmission line impedance calculators for use in high speed PCB design and RF design.
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Harness mmWave Routing with a Mode-Selective Transmission Line
High frequency and data rate channels can be routed as a mode-selective transmission line. Here’s when you should consider this routing technique.
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Parasitic Extraction with an Electromagnetic Solver in PCB Routing
Parasitic extraction: the integrated circuit design community must grapple with this task on a daily basis, especially once gate features are reduced below ~350 nm and chips run at high switching speeds. The PCB community also has to deal with this idea in order to better design power delivery networks, interconnects with precise impedance, and properly quantify crosstalk and coupling mechanisms. There are many 3rd party applications that can be
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Stripline Impedance Calculator
Learn more about using and interpreting results from a microstrip impedance calculator.
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Microstrip Impedance Calculator
Learn more about using and interpreting results from a microstrip impedance calculator.
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Altium Live Question: Digital Signals in a Grounded Coplanar Waveguide?
Have you considered the effects of a GPCW structure on digital signals? Here’s a hint: look at the S-parameters!
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Differential Stripline Impedance Calculator
Try our differential stripline impedance calculator, built based on Wadell’s equations.
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Differential Microstrip Impedance Calculator
Learn more about using and interpreting results from a differential microstrip impedance calculator.
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Differential Pair Impedance: Using a Calculator to Design Your PCB
Do you know what to look for in your differential pair impedance calculator? We've compiled the important information you need to know in this short guide.
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