Minimizing the EFFECTS OF VIAS on Very High-Speed Digital Signals

摘要

Data rates for very high-speed data links keep climbing. PCI-Express Gen 4 is 16Gb/s, and Gen 5 is 32Gb/s. Data rates on links in high-speed routers and servers are as high as 56Gb/S. RF engineers would call all these microwave frequencies, even though they are "just" digital. It should come as no surprise that elements that did not matter at lower data rates can have significant effects at much higher data rates. Vias are one of these.