Hi all, I am doing some simulation on a SATA I bus, and I have noticed an eye diagram violation when the lenght of the differential pair traces reduce down to 2 inches. The violation is a "glitch" in both the logical level (i.e the logical higt state is affected by a glith who violate the Vih(min) while the logical low state is affected by a glitch who violate the Vil(max). This strange glitch is approximately 100pS long and occurs approximately 2*Tpd from the leading edge, so I am pretty sure it is caused by some improper termination. What is surprising me, is that this violation occurs only in the first bit of the pattern, i.e if I skip the first bit of the pattern everything seems OK. Could anyone tell me if there is a reason why only the first bit has this strange behavior ? Thanks in advance. Giorgio . ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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