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[Scott McMorrow <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

david and doug,

far end termination decreases the signal amplitude by 50%.
near end termination decreasea the AC signal amplitude by 50%.
this amounts to a 12dB AC attenuation of the signal or 25% of the
source voltage being transmitted to the receiver.

At AC, the maximum voltage swing is 1/4 of the source voltage.
At DC, the maximum voltage swing is 1/2 of the source voltage.

as long as the signaling can withstand this sort of AC and DC amplitude
reduction, then impedance matching on both ends is okay.  Otherwise,
the reduced voltage swing is usually unacceptable.

regards,

scott


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Doug Brooks wrote:

> My opinion is that you are correct. Matching the impedance at the front end
> would be important, of course, if you wanted to maximize the transfer of
> power to the load. But if power is not an issue, and if crosstalk is not an
> issue, and assuming zero trace lengths within the source, then source
> impedance is not a factor.
>
> Doug Brooks
>
> At 03:38 PM 1/8/2002 -0700, David Kaiser wrote:
>
> >Theory question. Assume perfect world with no parasitics.
> >
> >If a 50 Ohm trace on a board is terminated with a 50 Ohm resistor at the end
> >of the trace, is there any advantage in terms of SI
> >to driving the trace with a source that has 50 Ohm output impedance compared
> >to a source with 10 or 20 Ohms of output impedance?
> >
> >It seems to me that the only thing the series source impedance would do to a
> >50 Ohm line that is terminated with a 50 Ohm resistive load would be to
> >divide the amplitude in half without improving the signal integrity.
> >Correct?
> >
> >David
> >
>
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