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Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation is an advanced-level course for experienced digital designers who want to press their designs to the upper limits of speed and distance. Focusing on lossy transmission environments like backplanes, cables and long on-chip interconnections, this two-day course teaches a unified theory of transmission impairments that apply to any transmission media. This course is an advanced sequel to the High-Speed Digital Design Seminar.
This is a practical two-day seminar course, filmed in front of a live audience by a professional documentary film crew, taught by a man with extraordinary capabilities. His seminars have been seen by over 10,000 engineers worldwide, and was for 20 years among the most popular summer engineering short courses ever offered at the University of Oxford.
Why so popular? The course is real, taught by a real engineer, with real examples, explanations, and classroom demonstrations. Anyone who works with high-speed digital signals at the upper limits of speed and distance will understand and benefit from the material presented. In the course, Dr. Johnson begins with fundamentals, to make sure the vocabulary is clear, and then applies those fundamental in diverse areas of high-speed design.
This course presents material related to the book, High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic, but treated in a different way and with different examples. The book, being 766 pages in length, obviously delves into the subject matter in greater detail. Think of the seminar as an introduction and, if you like it, get the book for on-the-job reference.
An independent consultant, Dr. Johnson has served literally hundreds of top-name companies like Google, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Cisco, Apple, Raytheon, and Lockheed-Martin. The breadth of his knowledge and understanding of high-speed computing systems is immense.
As an author, his books High-Speed Digital Design and High-Speed Signal Propagation have sold over 100,000 copies. He wrote EDN Magazine's featured Signal Integrity column for 17 years. Oxford University promoted his courses every year from 1994-2013 in their summer engineering curriculum. The IEEE tapped him to lead the technical development of Ethernet standards. In short, Dr. Johnson (now retired) is the sort of guy people pick when they want the very best for a tough High-Speed Digital Signal Integrity problem.
Lesson 1: (Advanced) High-Speed Signal Propagation: Opening Lecture
Lesson 2: Purpose of Simulation
Lesson 3: Tools for Highly Optimized Work above 1 GHz
Lesson 4: Review of Mathematical Fundamentals
Lesson 5: Transmission Line Basics
Lesson 6: Resistive Effects
Lesson 7: Dielectric Effects
Lesson 8: TEM Transmission Media
Lesson 9: Lumped-Element Behavior
Lesson 10: RC Region
Lesson 11: Skin-Effect Region
Lesson 13: Measuring Characteristic Impedance
Lesson 14: Onset of Non-TEM Behavior
Lesson 15: Equalizers
Lesson 16: Digital Receive-Based Equalization
Lesson 17: Frequency-Domain Analysis
Lesson 18: Scattering parameters (S-parameters)
Lesson 19: Design Examples
Lesson 20: Potholes (Transmission Line Imperfections)
Lesson 21: PCB Connectors
Lesson 22: Connecting layers
Lesson 23: Inductance of PCB Via
Lesson 24: Via Geometry
Lesson 25: Dangling Vias
Lesson 26: Purpose of Differential Signaling
Lesson 27: Differential Microstrip Geometry
Lesson 28: Differential Stripline Geometry
Lesson 29: Differential Broadside-Coupled Geometry
Lesson 30: Trace Width vs. Distance
Lesson 31: Differential Receivers Tolerate High-Frequency Losses
Lesson 32: Matching to an External Cable
Lesson 33: Reducing EMI with Differential Signaling
Lesson 34: Visualizing Differential Crosstalk
Lesson 35: Breaking Up a Pair
Lesson 36: Differential Termination
Lesson 37: Changing Reference Planes
Lesson 38: Managing Trace Skew
Lesson 39: DC Blocking Capacitor Layout
Lesson 40: Routing Clocks and Other High-Speed Signals
Lesson 41: Serpentine Traces
Lesson 42: Hairball Networks
Lesson 43: Daisy-Chain Distribution
Lesson 44: Frequency Offset, Wander, and Jitter
Lesson 45: Jitter Specifications
Lesson 46: Words of Wisdom
Lesson 47: Serial Link Architecture
Lesson 48: Serial Link Budgeting