Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation: More Black Magic

Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation: More Black Magic

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 12h 35m | 5.23 GB

Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation is an advanced-level course for experienced digital designers who want to press their designs to the upper limits of speed and distance. Focusing on lossy transmission environments like backplanes, cables and long on-chip interconnections, this two-day course teaches a unified theory of transmission impairments that apply to any transmission media. This course is an advanced sequel to the High-Speed Digital Design Seminar.

This is a practical two-day seminar course, filmed in front of a live audience by a professional documentary film crew, taught by a man with extraordinary capabilities. His seminars have been seen by over 10,000 engineers worldwide, and was for 20 years among the most popular summer engineering short courses ever offered at the University of Oxford.

Why so popular? The course is real, taught by a real engineer, with real examples, explanations, and classroom demonstrations. Anyone who works with high-speed digital signals at the upper limits of speed and distance will understand and benefit from the material presented. In the course, Dr. Johnson begins with fundamentals, to make sure the vocabulary is clear, and then applies those fundamental in diverse areas of high-speed design.

This course presents material related to the book, High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic, but treated in a different way and with different examples. The book, being 766 pages in length, obviously delves into the subject matter in greater detail. Think of the seminar as an introduction and, if you like it, get the book for on-the-job reference.

What You Will Learn

  • How dielectric loss affects transmission line performance
  • How skin-effect loss affects transmission line performance
  • Different modes of transmission-line usage: TEM, Lumped-element, RC
  • Introduction to equalization
  • Issues concerning printed circuit board trace imperfections, reflections, and vias
  • How to handle sensitive clocks

Who Should Take This Course

  • Digital logic designers
  • System architects
  • Chip designers
  • Applications engineers
  • Anyone who works with digital logic at speeds in excess of 1GHz
Table of Contents

01 Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation Video Lectures – Overview
02 Purpose of Simulation
03 Tools for Highly Optimized Work Above 1GHz
04 Review of Mathematical Fundamentals
05 Transmission Line Basics
06 Resistive Effects
07 Dielectric Effects
08 TEM Transmission Media
09 Lumped-Element Behavior
10 RC Region
11 Skin-Effect Region
12 Dielectric-Loss-Limited Region
13 Measuring Characteristic Impedance
14 Onset of Non-TEM Behavior
15 Equalizers
16 Recieved-Based Equalization
17 Frequency-Domain Modeling
18 Scattering Parameters
19 PCB Traces and Connectors
20 Potholes
21 PCB Connectors
22 Connecting Layers
23 Inductance of PCB Via
24 Via Geometry
25 Dangling Vias
26 Differential Signaling
27 Microstrip Geometry
28 Stripline Geometry
29 Broadside-Coupled Geometry
30 Trace Width vs Distance
31 Differential Receivers Tolerate High-Frequency Losses
32 Matching to an External Cable
33 Reducing EMI with Differential Signaling
34 Visualizing Differential Crosstalk
35 Breaking Up a Pair
36 Differential Termination
37 Changing Reference Planes
38 Managing Trace Skew
39 DC Blocking Capacitor Layout
40 Clock Distribution and Jitter
41 Serpentine Traces
42 Hairball Networks
43 Daisy-Chain Distribution
44 Frequency Offset, Wander, and Jitter
45 Jitter Specifications
46 Words Of Wisdom
47 Serial Link Architecture
48 Serial Link Budgeting