Re: [SI-LIST] : AC Coupling vs DC Coupling

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From: Tony Sweeney ([email protected])
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 15:37:33 PDT


I agree with Scott McMorrow's response and would like to add:

Things like packages and connectors can be significant contributers to
ISI. Another big contributer is SSO noise on the power supply lines and
to
a lesser extent crosstalk in the bondwires, package and board.
Supply noise has the effect of modulating the buffer delay. So it would
be helpful
to model a group of 5 output buffers as follows.

- model the chip to chip interconnect
- buffer, bondwire, package, via, transmission line (lossy & coupled),
via, package, bondwire, input buffer
- you may have connectors and therefore multiple transmission lines also
- model the power supply through the package
- do not assume a perfect supply on the board
- get bondwire, and package models that have coupling built in.

- put a psuedo random bit pattern on the middle line
- put a 1010 pattern on the other four lines

- a big spice model like above and a 128 bit pattern would take ~10
hours to run
a single case (on a Sun server) so you might want to create a psuedo
psuedo bit pattern.

Simulation is a good tool but real boards are the only way to really
know.
HSPICE and XTK can be great tools to debug some obvious problems up
front
and you can see some things you cannot measure on the scope (true cycle
by
cyle setup and holds, true cyle to cyle jitter magnitudes).

Regards,

Tony

Scott McMorrow wrote:
>
> "Greim, Michael" wrote:
>
> > What is an effective method of quantifying
> > ISI's effect on jitter. Within a simulation, would
> > the narrowing of an eye pattern indicate this.
>
> Yes, a good comparison would be to simulate
> a pseudo random pattern and then compare it
> to a simple pattern with a large number of ones
> followed by a large number of zeros.
>
> >
> > Would the difference between a pseudo random
> > bit sequence and a clock creating the eye show
> > this for a given topology?
>
> Yes, this third comparison is also quite useful
>
> regards,
>
> scott
>
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > MG
> >
> > > So ... whether on not non-DC balanced data will work in a system is
> > > dependent upon the available jitter and skew margin at the receivers
> > > and other sources of noise, jitter and skew in the system. ISI can
> > > be simulated to determine the upper bounds on it's contribution to
> > > jitter.
> > >
> >
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