From: Jim Freeman ([email protected])
Date: Fri Dec 31 1999 - 12:21:23 PST
Hi,
Lee, I am not singling you out on this because there was another reply with the same thing. Bruce proposes using a voltage source and an answer was to use
thevenin equivalents. The Voltage source with a source resistance is a thevenin configuration. An alternate would be a current source and a parallel
termination and I think that would be a Norton equivalent.
Jim Freeman
Lee Ritchey wrote:
> Use Thevenin Equivalents.
>
> Bruce Rosenquist wrote:
>
> > I was skimming the latest SI news, and your final comment caught my interest.
> > I am new to high-speed issues and controlling board impedances, and working
> > on a design which contains a lot of parallel termination for LVPECL signals.
> > This requires a termination voltage, which must, as you say, both sink and source current.
> >
> > How do the pros typically do this? Are there any DC-DC converters that are made
> > specifically for this function? What are some of the nasties you speak of ?
> > What are the tricks ?
> >
> > Bruce Rosenquist, Designer
> > DesignPRO Inc.
> > 35 Stafford Rd., Unit 1
> > Nepean, Ontario
> > K2H 8V8 CANADA
> >
> > http://www.designpro.org
> >
> > [email protected]
> >
> > phone: (613) 596-5030 fax: (613) 596-5163
> >
> > D. C. Sessions wrote:
> >
> > > With the year wrapping up and my inbox filling with
> > > "Out of Office Autoresponse" messages, I thought I'd
> > > kick off something more interesting than the joys of LVDS.
> > >
> > > In particular, what would we use for signaling if we could
> > > start with a totally clean sheet of paper? Rather than
> > > immediately jump to a solution, I'm looking for some criteria:
> > >
> > > * It has to be scalable. Given silicon technology trends, it
> > > should migrate gracefully to lower-voltages and less
> > > voltage-stress-tolerant semiconductors.
> > >
> > > * It has to be SI clean. Output impedance should be matched
> > > (stringency variable) to the line across the switching range.
> > > Inputs switchpoints should be symmetrical and well-defined
> > > (ie differential receivers). Power plane proliferation
> > > leads to bad SI and wasted money, so separate termination
> > > supplies are a Bad Thing.
> > >
> > > * It has to be versatile. Single-ended, balanced single-ended, or
> > > differential; multidrop or point-to-point; uni- or bidirectional;
> > > all should be minor variations on the same system.
> > >
> > > * It should be economical. Wasted power is a Bad Thing, so low
> > > swing is a must. Padrings are some of the most expensive real
> > > estate around, so pincount should be minimized. Line termination
> > > can dominate a PWB so KISS is the rule. Power supplies (esp.
> > > ones that can both sink and source current) are expensive and
> > > nasty to deal with, so do without (both for termination and
> > > funny analog functions in the I/O circuits.)
> > >
> > > What can we add to the list? Remove? Priorities? (This is
> > > engineering, we make tradeoffs.) Where does this take us?
> > >
> > > --
> > > D. C. Sessions
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