Items Tagged with 'signal integrity in practice'

Serial links have focused the practice of signal integrity on managing loss and discontinuities. Each system struggles with one or the other, making it imperative to determine which issue is dominant in your system and respond appropriately. This article by Donald Telian will explain how to characterize your link to help guide your thinking and your solution.

In this article, Donald Telian explains why discontinuities do not sum the same way as loss. Telian outlines that a failing an RL mask might indicate that Tx or Rx are simply too close to a discontinuity, causing the discontinuity proximity effect. Read on to learn more about how to to distance SerDes from discontinuities.

Understanding and minimizing discontinuities is increasingly important as serial links become both shorter and faster. Applying the old edge rate to roundtrip relationship to the modern era, Donald Telian in this article offers a rule-of-thumb to help gauge which interconnect structures, and hence discontinuities, to care about – and to what degree.