Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol. 2(6), pp. 254 - 257
DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2014.020603
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Validating Some Signal Integrity Procedures for Transmission of Digital Signals on Microstrip Circuits

Francisco Jiménez Hernández , Alejandro Dueñas Jiménez ^*
Departamento de Electrónica, División de Electrónica y Computación, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guadalajara, 45030 Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

ABSTRACT

Because of the high volume of processing, transmission, and information storage, electronic systems presently require faster clock speeds to synchronize the integrated circuits. At present the “speeds” on the connections of a printed circuit board (PCB) are up to 4 GHz or even faster. At these frequencies the behavior of the interconnects are more like that of a transmission line, and hence distortion, delay, and phase shift-effects caused by phenomena like cross talk, ringing, and overshoot are present and may be undesirable for the performance of a circuit or system. Thus, the interconnects do not have to be considered like simple conductors or lumped elements. All this gives rise to a new emerging discipline known as signal integrity. In this discipline the correct timing and signal quality preservation preventing transients and false switching are studied in order to avoid excessive delays. These phrases were extracted from the chapter eight of book “2-D Electromagnetic Simulation of Passive Microstrip Circuits” from the corresponding author of this paper.

KEYWORDS
Signal Integrity, Transmission Lines, Distortion, Delay, Phase Shift-Effects, Cross Talk, Ringing, Overshoot, Transients, False Switching, Timing, Signal Quality.

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Francisco Jiménez Hernández , Alejandro Dueñas Jiménez , "Validating Some Signal Integrity Procedures for Transmission of Digital Signals on Microstrip Circuits," Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 254 - 257, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2014.020603.

(b). APA Format:
Francisco Jiménez Hernández , Alejandro Dueñas Jiménez (2014). Validating Some Signal Integrity Procedures for Transmission of Digital Signals on Microstrip Circuits. Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2(6), 254 - 257. DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2014.020603.