> You could clarify this issue from Dr. Johnson article named "Big > Buffer" (http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/8_07.htm). As usual, his stuff is very good reading. This paragraph caught my attention. > The main factors that affect SSO noise are (1) the aggregate amount of > current switched by your IC, (2) the rise time of that current, and > (3) the number and quality of the power and ground connections > provided in the IC package. Most relevant to this discussion is the > total amount of current--more capacitive loading enlarges that > current, increasing the amplitude of SSO noise. Why does more capacitive loading make SSO worse? The previous discussion showed that you can compute the output resistance of the driver from the short circuit current. That doesn't depend upon the capacitive loading. I think that capacitive loading will make the duration of the output current pulse longer. It will slow down the rise time of the signal, but that's the voltage rise time. The current rise time is what causes ground bounce and that won't change if you add more load capacitance. What am I missing? Is the turn-on time for a driver slow rather than instantaneous? "Slow" meaning roughly the same as the (normal) rise time so the normal capacitance gets charged while the driver is turning on and the driver never delivers the full short circuit current? -- The suespammers.org mail server is located in California. So are all my other mailboxes. Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other addresses. These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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