Preface to the Third Edition xix Preface to the Second Edition xxi Preface to the First Edition xxiii Chapter 1 Signal Integrity Is in Your Future 1 1.1 What Are Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, and Electromagnetic Compatibility? 3 1.2 Signal-Integrity Effects on One Net 7 1.3 Cross Talk 11 1.4 Rail-Collapse Noise 14 1.5 Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) 17 1.6 Two Important Signal-Integrity Generalizations 19 1.7 Trends in Electronic Products 20 1.

8 The Need for a New Design Methodology 26 1.9 A New Product Design Methodology 27 1.10 Simulations 29 1.11 Modeling and Models 34 1.12 Creating Circuit Models from Calculation 36 1.13 Three Types of Measurements 42 1.14 The Role of Measurements 45 1.15 The Bottom Line 48 Review Questions 50 Chapter 2 Time and Frequency Domains 51 2.

1 The Time Domain 52 2.2 Sine Waves in the Frequency Domain 54 2.3 Shorter Time to a Solution in the Frequency Domain 56 2.4 Sine-Wave Features 58 2.5 The Fourier Transform 60 2.6 The Spectrum of a Repetitive Signal 62 2.7 The Spectrum of an Ideal Square Wave 64 2.8 From the Frequency Domain to the Time Domain 66 2.

9 Effect of Bandwidth on Rise Time 68 2.10 Bandwidth and Rise Time 72 2.11 What Does Significant Mean? 73 2.12 Bandwidth of Real Signals 77 2.13 Bandwidth and Clock Frequency 78 2.14 Bandwidth of a Measurement 80 2.15 Bandwidth of a Model 83 2.16 Bandwidth of an Interconnect 85 2.

17 The Bottom Line 89 Review Questions 90 Chapter 3 Impedance and Electrical Models 93 3.1 Describing Signal-Integrity Solutions in Terms of Impedance 94 3.2 What Is Impedance? 97 3.3 Real Versus Ideal Circuit Elements 99 3.4 Impedance of an Ideal Resistor in the Time Domain 102 3.5 Impedance of an Ideal Capacitor in the Time Domain 103 3.6 Impedance of an Ideal Inductor in the Time Domain 107 3.7 Impedance in the Frequency Domain 109 3.

8 Equivalent Electrical Circuit Models 115 3.9 Circuit Theory and SPICE 117 3.10 Introduction to Measurement-Based Modeling 121 3.11 The Bottom Line 126 Review Questions 128 Chapter 4 The Physical Basis of Resistance 131 4.1 Translating Physical Design into Electrical Performance 132 4.2 The Only Good Approximation for the Resistance of Interconnects 133 4.3 Bulk Resistivity 136 4.4 Resistance per Length 138 4.

5 Sheet Resistance 139 4.6 The Bottom Line 143 Review Questions 145 Chapter 5 The Physical Basis of Capacitance 147 5.1 Current Flow in Capacitors 149 5.2 The Capacitance of a Sphere 150 5.3 Parallel Plate Approximation 152 5.4 Dielectric Constant 153 5.5 Power and Ground Planes and Decoupling Capacitance 156 5.6 Capacitance per Length 159 5.

7 2D Field Solvers 165 5.8 Effective Dielectric Constant 168 5.9 The Bottom Line 172 Review Questions 173 Chapter 6 The Physical Basis of Inductance 175 6.1 What Is Inductance? 175 6.2 Inductance Principle 1: There Are Circular Rings of Magnetic-Field Lines Around All Currents 176 6.3 Inductance Principle 2: Inductance Is the Number of Webers of Field Line Rings Around a Conductor per Amp of Current Through It 179 6.4 Self-Inductance and Mutual Inductance 181 6.5 Inductance Principle 3: When the Number of Field Line Rings Around a Conductor Changes, There Will Be a Voltage Induced Across the Ends of the Conductor 184 6.

6 Partial Inductance 187 6.7 Effective, Total, or Net Inductance and Ground Bounce 193 6.8 Loop Self- and Mutual Inductance 199 6.9 The Power Distribution Network (PDN) and Loop Inductance 204 6.10 Loop Inductance per Square of Planes 210 6.11 Loop Inductance of Planes and Via Contacts 211 6.12 Loop Inductance of Planes with a Field of Clearance Holes 214 6.13 Loop Mutual Inductance 216 6.

14 Equivalent Inductance of Multiple Inductors 216 6.15 Summary of Inductance 219 6.16 Current Distributions and Skin Depth 220 6.17 High-Permeability Materials 229 6.18 Eddy Currents 232 6.19 The Bottom Line 235 Review Questions 237 Chapter 7 The Physical Basis of Transmission Lines 239 7.1 Forget the Word Ground 240 7.2 The Signal 242 7.

3 Uniform Transmission Lines 243 7.4 The Speed of Electrons in Copper 245 7.5 The Speed of a Signal in a Transmission Line 247 7.6 Spatial Extent of the Leading Edge 251 7.7 "Be the Signal" 252 7.8 The Instantaneous Impedance of a Transmission Line 256 7.9 Characteristic Impedance and Controlled Impedance 259 7.10 Famous Characteristic Impedances 262 7.

11 The Impedance of a Transmission Line 266 7.12 Driving a Transmission Line 271 7.13 Return Paths 274 7.14 When Return Paths Switch Reference Planes 278 7.15 A First-Order Model of a Transmission Line 291 7.16 Calculating Characteristic Impedance with Approximations 297 7.17 Calculating the Characteristic Impedance with a 2D Field Solver 300 7.18 An n-Section Lumped-Circuit Model 306 7.

19 Frequency Variation of the Characteristic Impedance 314 7.20 The Bottom Line 316 Review Questions 318 Chapter 8 Transmission Lines and Reflections 321 8.1 Reflections at Impedance Changes 323 8.2 Why Are There Reflections? 324 8.3 Reflections from Resistive Loads 328 8.4 Source Impedance 331 8.5 Bounce Diagrams 333 8.6 Simulating Reflected Waveforms 335 8.

7 Measuring Reflections with a TDR 337 8.8 Transmission Lines and Unintentional Discontinuities 340 8.9 When to Terminate 343 8.10 The Most Common Termination Strategy for Point-to-Point Topology 345 8.11 Reflections from Short Series Transmission Lines 348 8.12 Reflections from Short-Stub Transmission Lines 351 8.13 Reflections from Capacitive End Terminations&.