Signal Integrity

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Best Practices: Using Ideal Models and Circuits

Ideal circuit elements are a powerful tool that enables us to explore the real world in virtual prototypes. Engineers can often gain insights and reach an optimized design faster using a virtual prototype than would be possible when building a real physical prototype.


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Impact of Finite Interconnect Impedance Including Spatial and Domain Comparison of PDN Characterization

DesignCon 2024 Best Paper Award Winner

Awarded the Best Paper Award at DesignCon 2024, this paper demonstrates that, for correlated data with PDN impedances in the sub-mΩ level, the impedance extracted from same-location top-bottom measurement can be significantly different from same-side adjacent via pair measurement, even if the physical separation is in the order of a mm



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Are 1.0 mm Precision RF Connectors Required for 224 Gbps PAM4 Verification?

DesignCon 2024 Best Paper Award Winner

This paper, awarded the Best Paper Award at DesignCon 2024, explores what is meant by bandwidth during the standardization process, the implications of test and verification attached to certain bandwidth requirements, as well as differences between acquisition range, band limited filters, and s-parameters for time domain processing. 


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Compute Accurate Short Term Frequency Stability Metrics of Periodic Timing Signals

Making accurate time interval error (TIE) or phase noise measurements of a periodic signal presents a number of challenges. The program jitterhist includes algorithms and settings to provide accurate TIE measurement results for periodic waveforms with significant amounts of high-frequency measurement/modulation noise as well as for waveforms having multiple unit intervals of low frequency modulation when the time span of the samples includes more than one period of the modulation. 


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