Pravin, This is just one more argument to loosely couple your differential lines. If they have around 20 mils seperation, you can treat them as single ended and serpentining has no effect on impedance. Here is an article by Dr. Howard Johnson on why you don't need to tightly couple your diff pairs which I agree with wholeheartedly. By the way I commonly do 3.125GHz loosely coupled and they work very well. http://www.sigcon.com/news/2_30.htm Paul " pravin patel" <fairfax100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 02/14/2002 06:25:04 AM Please respond to fairfax100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Paul Ikeda/Marvell) Subject: [SI-LIST] Diff line I am doing layout of 2.5Ghz diff. line and having hard time to match length of a pair by 300 mil. I was going to make one line serpentine to make both line matched. By doing serpentine, I am creating impedance discontinuty or I will create skew. Any Ideas. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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