[SI-LIST] Re: Question about AC coupling caps on SATA lines

  • From: Ivor Bowden <bowden.ivor@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:38:44 -0700

This was hashed a bit with no big revelations a few years ago.
Check the archives, March 2010, subject "PCI Express AC 
Coupling".
Maybe other times too. Still interested in ideas about the 
subject.
Regards, Ivor

On 10/3/2014 5:41 PM, Joel Brown wrote:
> I had a system that had two AC coupling caps at both the transmitter and
> receiver, so a section of the line was floating as far as DC goes. I was
> having some problems so I replaced one of the caps with a short and think
> it helped. I have run into that situation again and wondering if having a
> part of the SATA line floating w.r.t. DC can be a problem. Seems to me it
> could.
> Thanks - Joel
>
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