Signal Integrity’s Growing Complexity


By Matt Elmore While in the market for a memory upgrade recently, I was surprised by the availability of commercial DDR memories. You can get 8GB of DDR3 memory, transferring 17GB/s, relatively inexpensively. The progress in memory design is outstanding. From smartphones to gaming PCs, quick communication between the IC and off-chip memory is key to enabling the performance we demand in the... » read more

Making Too Much Noise


By Ed Sperling For the better part of a decade talk about signal integrity in mixed-signal designs has been noticeably absent. That’s about to change. Prior to the adoption of a 130nm process, many semiconductor companies actually went on record saying they were considering abandoning plans to ever put analog and digital on the same chip because the noise on digital would interrupt signal... » read more

Low-Power And RF Design Heighten Signal-Integrity Concerns


By Ellen Konieczny As active devices and interconnect wires shrink and are placed closer together with the march of Moore’s Law, signal integrity is becoming a huge concern. If it is not maintained, a design’s future may be marred by lower yields, unreliable performance, and failure to work efficiently—if at all. For low-power and radio-frequency (RF) designs, which are being prod... » read more

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