High-Speed Digital Design
A Workshop in Black Magic
with Dr.
Howard Johnson
This very popular and practical workshop covers the important and timely issues involving high-speed digital design and signal integrity.
Developed specifically for engineers and designers who work with high-speed
digital signals, this workshop will give you the power to instantly recognize
and solve many of today’s high-speed design problems.
TOPICS INCLUDE
- Driver modeling
- Ringing
- Termination
- Bus performance
- Bypass capacitors
- Crosstalk
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- Metastability
- Ground bounce (ssn)
- Split planes
- Mixed-signal isolation
- Power system noise
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Course Syllabus:
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VOCABULARY of SIGNAL INTEGRITY
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Understand relations among time,
frequency and distance
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Discover uses for
the lumped-element PO-model
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Define and measure parasitic
inductance and capacitance
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Compare capacitive
and inductive coupling.
PROPERTIES of GATES
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See why switching
too fast degrades noise margins
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Discuss benefits
and pitfalls of IBIS
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Investigate ground
bounce (SSN) and five ways to fix it
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Observe
metastability in a working
flip-flop (video demonstration)
USING YOUR OSCILLOSCOPE
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Study types of
probes
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Understand how
probes load your digital circuit, and
distort the waveforms
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Model distortion
due to probe ground connection
TRANSMISSION LINES
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Define
characteristic impedance and delay
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Discuss physical
fabrication issues
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Present the
time-space diagram for
transmission-line analysis
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Memorize examples
of unterminated line performance
GROUND PLANES AND LAYER STACKING
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Develop intuition
about return current and crosstalk
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See how cuts in the
reference plane degrade fast signals
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Look at the effect
of split power plane and split ground
planes
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Develop strategies
for isolating analog and digital
mixed-signal regions
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Review the ultimate
thick-board stackup
TERMINATIONS
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Compare source
termination, end termination,
both-ends termination and AC
termination
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Design a split-end
termination
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Calculate effect of
loading on bus performance
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See examples of
first-incident wave and reflected-wave
switching structures
BUILDING A ROCK-SOLID POWER SYSTEM
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Present a standard
electrical model for a capacitor,
supported by actual measurements
(video demonstration)
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Look at new
capacitor packages
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Model arrays of
capacitors, and whole power systems,
using Spice
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Plot performance of
dual-value arrays
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How to pick values
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Who should attend?
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Digital logic designers
- System architects
- EMC specialists
- Technicians
- Printed wiring layout professionals
- Applications engineers
- Anyone who works with digital logic at
high speeds (20MHz to 20GHz and beyond)
This is a practical course. It is
filled with examples, explanations, and
classroom demonstrations. Anyone who works
with high-speed digital signals will
understand and benefit from the material
presented.
Who has participated in this workshop?
Originally developed for
the University of Oxford, this workshop has
been presented by Dr. Johnson for thousands
of engineers in both public and private
forums worldwide. Past participants
represent a wide variety of organizations,
including:
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3Com
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Agilent
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AMD
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Boeing
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Cisco Systems
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Compaq
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DEC
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Dell Computer
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Ericsson
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Hewlett-Packard
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Honeywell
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IBM
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Innoveda
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Intel
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Lockheed Martin
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Mentor Graphics
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Motorola
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NASA
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Nokia
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Nortel Networks
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Qualcomm
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Rockwell-Collins
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Samsung
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Sandia National
Labs
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Sun Microsystems
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Tektronix
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Texas Instruments
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VLSI
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What people are saying
"Simply put, the best
class I've had in 20 years at HP, at M.I.T.,
or at U.C. Berkeley, by 20 decibels!"
- Systems Development Engineer,
Hewlett-Packard
"I did everything you
suggested and my board worked the first
time! I also modified an older board and saw
an immediate improvement in EMI performance.
Your class really works!"
- Senior Design Engineer, 3Com
"Howard Johnson did a
great job. he is knowledgeable, articulate,
and thorough."
- On-Line Systems Developer, Dell
"Should be a mandatory
course for engineers and layout people."
-Advisory Engineer, NASA
"The course was
fantastic. The course was really the finest,
most useful, and stimulating continuing
education course I have ever taken. I would
give it the highest rating available, and
will recommend it to everyone. [Dr. Johnson]
was eloquent, intelligent, concise,
humorous, and extraordinarily knowledgeable
of not only the subjects' theoretical
treatment but also how to apply quick,
real-world solutions to real-world
problems."
-Field Applications Engineer, Hewlett
Packard
There are Three Ways to
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