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Cu Roughness and Trace Loss Explained (Lee Ritchey video)

May 6, 2013 by Rolf Ostergaard

Skin-effect pushes the current to the outer part of any metal conductor, which is why we need to worry about Cu roughness. For copper, as it is used on a printed circuit board (PCB) the effective skin depth goes like this over frequency. With signaling speeds on PCB going to 28 Gbit/s (example: FPGA’s in… Read more

Filed Under: PCB Manufacturing Tagged With: Copper Roughness, Loss, Stackup, Stockholm, Video

Rules of thumb for 28 Gbps

October 22, 2012 by Rolf Ostergaard

Rules of thumb are probably not going to cut it anymore for high-speed designs with interfaces like USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0 and other serial links (now approaching 28Gbps on the next generation FPGA’s). So here are some rules of thumb anyways 🙂 This comes from Jim Nadolny of Samtec in this recent webinar moderated by… Read more

Filed Under: Transmission Lines Tagged With: Copper Roughness, Dielectric Loss, Loss, SI, Skin Effect

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