You are correct Ray - I thought you were talking about microstrip - in stripline velocity is dependent on the inverse square root of the dielectric constant . Justin -----Original Message----- From: Ray Anderson [mailto:Raymond.Anderson@xxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:22 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tabatchnick, Justin Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: Power planes > >Ray; > >Since the effective dielectric constant is a function of the reference >ground plane distance and the trace width, ground plane distance does >effect velocity. > >Justin >Intel , Sacramento > Justin- Effective dielectric constant is a weak but complex function of stack-up geometry for microstrip lines where the fields around the line are partly in the air and partly in the substrate material, however for stripline=20 geometries where the substrate material is both above and below the signal conductor I don't believe there is that dependency. -Ray Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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