High-density interconnect (HDI) printed circuits are being designed in ever-increasing quantities. HDI brings some interesting new solutions to age-old signal integrity (SI) concerns-concerns that ...

Signal integrity has become a critical issue in the design of high-speed systems. Inferior signal integrity leads to poor reliability, degraded performance, field failures and delayed product releases ...

The following 10 measurements define signal integrity. Masterthem, and you will become a guru of the art. Work on onemeasurement every quarter or every year until you fullygrasp the relationship among ...

As semiconductor technology scales down, manufacturing effects are coming front and center, putting constant pressure on design teams to make sure that silicon can be modeled through the extraction ...

The RS-485 is a popular serial communications standard that’s widely used in industry. It’s flexible, with the ability to achieve high data rates on long bus cables. The standard is relatively easy to ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...