I'm probably not the best person to ask the group delay question to. My understanding is that the loss tangent is not constant across the frequency range for FR4 or that the losses are not linear with respect to frequency.=20 As far as balancing dielectric to copper losses it really does not apply to short runs. I believe it manly applies to trying to get the longest run possible for a given geometry, board material, stackup. Someone else please give more guidance on the top 2 statements. Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Loyer, Jeff [mailto:jeff.loyer@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:49 PM To: leonard.dieguez; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Balancing Copper and dielectric losses? Leonard, In this posting, it's implied that there's some benefit to balancing the dielectric and copper losses. Is this merely a boo-boo, or is there some phenomena I haven't heard of? I'm also surprised to hear the "wonders for group delay" comment. Can you clarify what you mean by that? Jeff Loyer -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leonard Dieguez Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:34 AM To: steve weir; leonard.dieguez; rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Charles.Grasso@xxxxxxxxxxxx; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Q on Trace Width and Jitter for Diff Pairs Steve, I agree with you that you need the "right amount". For a given material and bit rate there is always the right trace width if you want to balance the dielectric loss to the copper loss.=3D20 So for short interconnect I feel the problem would be creating a resonator or sharp filter. Impedance matching really becomes harder problem. I will normally use a 3D EM simulator like Ansoft HFSS to simulate each structure then do a end to end simulation. In this case I would try to excite the two points that we are worried about resonating. One problem with FR4 is that it is not well behaved and it does wonders for group delay. It is also hard to simulate if you want to take that into account. By the time you get PCBs back the "Mixture" may not be exactly what you thought it was. Leonard. =3D20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu