>Eeeeyeew! Feedback! Feedback is evil. Bad driver, BAD.
>Go to bed without stability. Naughty, naughty, naughty.
>Well, OK, that's overstating it. Sometimes feedback is
>not only useful but necessary; it still makes behavioral
>modelling (a la IBIS) pretty well impossible. IMNSHO, this
>is more annoying than crippling since feedback has other
>properties that limit its usefulness in applications where
>signal integrity is a major concern, so giving up behavioral
>modelling of feedback-controlled drivers is (again, IMO) no
>great loss.
I guess one man's meat is another man's poison.
Usually I'm more interested in solving an SI problem, than ensuring that it
is easy to model. So we agree there.
So I have several questions:
1. Feedback is a very useful technique in many areas of EE. How widely is
it used in SI? What are the problems with using feedback?
2. Why is a feedback system difficult (pretty well impossible) to model
with IBIS? I know we had lots of problems achieving accurate modeling of a
feedback driver in SPICE.
3. What are the properties of feedback that limit its usefulness in
applications where signal integrity is a major concern?
DC Sessions also wrote:
>IBIS can't really deal
>with JEDEC flexible-impedance drivers, and I'm writing THOSE into
>the IEEE 1394b spec. Great fun. Still, we need to keep in mind that
>the more exotic variants that you and I deal with are of very narrow
>application.
4. What is a flexible impedance driver, and how does it work?
Charles Hill, consultant
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