September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 50m
English
A signal with a very fast edge going into a long transmission line will come out with a longer rise time. As an example, the measured response of a 50-psec signal transported through a 36-inch-long, 50-Ohm backplane line in FR4 is shown in Figure 9-1. The rise-time has been increased to almost 1 nsec. This rise-time degradation is due to the losses in the transmission line and gives rise to intersymbol interference (ISI) and the collapse of the eye diagram.

Figure 9-1. Measured input and output signals through a 50-Ohm line, 36 inches long. A 50-psec rise-time signal goes in, ...
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