Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits: Advanced Signal Integrity Methods for Engineers

By Dennis Miller

Glossary

ABCD: A matrix that defines the voltage and current out of one port of a device, in terms of voltage and current into another, single, port.
adaptive equalization: In a serial receiver, the process of adjusting circuit parameters in a manner that reduces the impact of intersymbol interference or of crosstalk.
balun: A contraction of the phrase balanced-to-unbalanced converter. A balun is a three-ported device that can convert single-ended signals to differential, and differential signals to single ended.
boundary conditions: Values assigned at the edges of a field or the limits of an equation that allow you to solve for actual values rather than just relative relationships.
broadside: In the context of differential transmission lines, this is a coupling where the two lines are on adjacent layers and stacked one above the other.
c: As a lower-case letter, c is often used as the speed of light in free space, 3*10^8 meters per second.
cgs: Centimeter, gram, second.
chaining: A process in which the combined effect of two matrix operations can be found by the simple process of finding the product of the two matrices.
characteristic impedance: The relation between current and voltage for the forward-traveling wave in a device. It can also be viewed as the impedance that will terminate a transmission line in a manner that produces no reflections. It is usually designated by the symbol Zo.
circuit solver: A program such as SPICE that solves for currents, voltage, and time in a circuit...

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