Robert Hanson, MSEE, will be presenting his five one-day high-speed/digital design and EMI/EMC seminars along with Cadence demonstrations of their Allegro Signal Integrity tools November 7 - 11, 2011, in Chicago area. Attendees can choose one or more days to attend. Details and sign ups are on website _www.americomseminars.com_ (http://www.americomseminars.com) and topics for each day are listed below. Questions on the itinerary or other questions, contact Robert at _americomrh@xxxxxxxx (mailto:americomrh@xxxxxxx) or _americomseminars@xxxxxxxx (mailto:americomseminars@xxxxxxx) Agenda below: Agenda Day 1 TRANSMISSION LINES - Fundamentals of transmission lines including stripline vs. micro-strip Cadence demo: pre- and post-route SI analysis using ideal and lossy transmission lines Day 2 CROSSTALK - Stack-up optimization and forward/reverse crosstalk Cadence demo: pre- and post-route crosstalk analysis as well as crosstalk estimation Day 3 POWER DELIVERY - Proper use of decoupling capacitors and identifying power plane resonance Cadence demo: Allegro PCB Power Delivery Network (PDN) Analysis Day 4 DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALING - Loosely vs. tightly coupled differential pairs; clock distribution Cadence demo: Tandem and broad-side differential pair routing and analysis Day 5 EMI/EMC - Source, path, and receptor as well as how EMI/EMC tests are conducted Cadence demo: EM control rule checking and EMI net analysis ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu