Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation

This 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 course teaches a unified theory of transmission impairments that apply to any transmission media. Topics include: skin effect and dielectric loss, on-chip vs. off-chip transmission-line behavior, equalization, serial interconnections, lossy media, single-ended and differential signaling, frequency-domain modeling, signal distribution and clock jitter.

This course is an advanced sequel to High-Speed Digital Design by Dr Howard Johnson.

All delegates receive a free copy of Howard Johnson's "High-Speed Signal Propagation - Advanced Black Magic" (Prentice Hall).

Benefits

• This is a practical course, filled with practical examples and explanations.
• Delegates without the benefit of formal training in analog circuit theory can use and apply the formulas and examples from this course to determine which of their circuits will encounter difficulties and how to fix them.
• Delegates who have completed (at least) a first-year university level class in introductory linear circuit theory will comprehend the material at a deeper level.