Brief Description

System analysis for industry buses, budgeting, cost/performance trade off, system bussing block diagrams, case studies for SCSI, IDE, Serial ATA, GTL, DDR, PCI, PCI express, and the industry’s direction on new buses.

OBJECTIVES

To develop the skills for analyzing high-speed circuits with signal behavior modeling;
To demonstrate proficiency in understanding signal integrity concepts and terminology and to understand the signal integrity on circuit design;
To be able to perform and analyze signal measurements and to be able make trade off decisions based on signal budget and design requirements.

Syllabus

Signal Integrity on System Bus Technology Course Objectives

Brief Description

System analysis for industry buses, budgeting, cost/performance trade off, system bussing block diagrams, case studies for SCSI, IDE, Serial ATA, GTL, DDR, PCI, PCI express, and the industry’s direction on new buses.

OBJECTIVES

To develop the skills for analyzing high-speed circuits with signal behavior modeling;

To demonstrate proficiency in understanding signal integrity concepts and terminology and to understand the signal integrity on circuit design;

To be able to perform and analyze signal measurements and to be able make trade off decisions based on signal budget and design requirements.

MAJOR TOPICS

System Analysis for Industry Buses

Open Collector, Differential, Common Clocking, Source Synchronous

Budgeting

Timing & Voltage Margins, Uncertainty, Measurement and simulation accuracy

Cost/Performance Trade Off

Likelihood of failures, oxide failures, cost of failure, error correcting

Clocking

Clock Domains, Routing topologies, Skew, Jitter, Clock measurements

Case Studies (time permitting)

SCSI, differential SCSI, IDE, AGP 8x, Serial ATA, GTL, AGTL, DDR, PCI, PCI express, Industry’s direction on new buses.

METHOD OF GRADING