Analytic termination metrics for pin-to-pin lossy transmissionlines with nonlinear drivers

摘要

A significant percentage of the critical nets in high-performancensystems are of the pin-to-pin type. To optimally design these nets suchnthat signal integrity is preserved, efficient analytical metrics forntransmission line termination are a valuable part of a system-levelndesigner's toolset. Using the symbolic moment-based expressions in thisnpaper, proper termination can be determined via a single-step procedure,nwithout any preprocessing steps and/or time-domain simulations. Drivernnonlinearities and effects of nonzero rise-time are also considered innthe proposed termination methodology