From: Vinu Arumugham ([email protected])
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 09:59:25 PDT
"D. C. Sessions" wrote:
>
> Me, I'm a hardcase. I'm inclined to just tell the systems designers to avoid
> resonant line lengths.
For lower speeds, I think avoiding the resonant line length is the best solution. At
lower speeds, the reflections caused by the high-Z of the driver may not even be a
problem. At higher speeds, the ISI due to reflected-wave operation is too high and
receiver end termination becomes necessary. So, the motivation for modifying the
standard is not clear to me.
> The others aren't confident that the users will even
> know what we're talking about. (To be fair, quite a few applications don't have
> fixed frequencies.)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Freeman [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:58 AM
> > To: D. C. Sessions
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Reflected-wave drivers: quality metric
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi DC,
> > I don't see the CMOS on/off condition described below as a problem. It
> > is an even
> > greater problem to have crowbar current in the outputs due to both the
> > pullup and
> > pulldown being on simultaneously. This gives rise to simultaneous ground and
> > VCC bounce
> > as well as an oscillation caused by the capacitance from power to ground not
> > responding
> > instantaneously(in school I learned that capacitors don't like to change
> > their voltage
> > instantaneously)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jim Freeman
> > P.S. VSWR may be a lost concept because most of the modern engineering
> > programs have
> > de-emphasized electromagnetics and emphasized Boolean algebra and its
> > logical followon
> > computer programming/hardware design. Most EE's think in terms of zeros and
> > ones
> > instead of volts and amps
> >
> >
> > "D. C. Sessions" wrote:
> >
> > > JEDEC's JC-16 committee is in the process of revising the SSTL standards
> > > to explicitly cover reflected-wave operation. One of the issues coming up
> > > in the course of the work is that CMOS outputs are typically ill-behaved
> > > during transitions (usually going to high impedance after one transistor
> > > turns off and before the other turns on.)
> > >
> > > There have been several proposals to specify envelopes for the Z/T
> > response
> > > (majorly ugly), ignoring the matter (nope), and so forth. Right now the
> > best bet
> > > seems to be specifying a (two?) resonant stubs driven to have reflections
> > arrive
> > > back at the driver in the midst of transition.
> > >
> > > In other words, we're going to place bounds on the VSWR (you can stop
> > laughing,
> > > Ed. I had fun explaining to the kids that this wasn't exactly new and
> > pointing them
> > > to the ARRL handbook.)
> > >
> > > The question is: since these won't be pure sinusoids (anything but!) what
> > would be
> > > a good metric for the resultant resonant-mode waveforms that would reflect
> > (as it
> > > were) the cumulative S/N ratio at the receiver?
> > >
> > > D. C. Sessions,
> > > Chair, JC-16
> > >
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