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Section 1-2: Energy Movement in Circuits / Critical Frequencies in Digital Circuits and PCBs

  1. Electromagnetic theory overview
  2. Electromagnetic fields
  3. Current and voltage
  4. Field effects
  5. Edge rate vs. clock speeds
  6. Signal transitions
  7. IBIS models
  8. Digital signals

Section 3: Transmission Lines in PCBs

  1. Traces / GND reference planes
  2. Electrically long transmission lines
  3. Analog circuits

Section 4: Understanding Impedance of Transmission Lines

  1. Characteristic impedance
  2. Impedance discontinuities
  3. Ringing
  4. T-routing

Section 5: Impedance Control of Transmission Lines

  1. Transmission line impedance
  2. Coplanar waveguide transmission lines vs. microstrip
  3. Multilayer analog PCBs
  4. Digital PCBs with high-speed ICs
  5. Digital PCBs
  6. Determining line impedance

Section 6: Understanding Impedance of Digital ICs

  1. Digital IC input impedance
  2. RC termination
  3. Digital IC output performance
  4. Incident wave switching
  5. Reflection mode switching
  6. Series termination resistors

Section 7: Controlling Noise Margin

  1. Noise margin explained
  2. Recovering noise margin with termination value selection
  3. Parallel termination
  4. Series termination
  5. GND and VCC bounce
  6. Die mounting to substrates

Section 8: Crosstalk and Cross-Coupling

  1. Near-end (backward) crosstalk
  2. Far-end (forward) crosstalk
  3. Innerlayer lines
  4. Low-layer-count boards

Section 9: Controlling Timing of High-Speed Lines

  1. Propagation time
  2. Line loading
  3. Power distribution networks (PDN)