Mick, you will never get pure copper resistivity, because of the nickel and gold plating. as for the packages that we use, our trace resistivity turns out to be between 1.3X-1.5X that of pure copper. including manucturing variances, we have used as much as 2X pure copper resistivity. chee-yee -----Original Message----- From: Zhou, Xingling (Xingling) [mailto:xlzhou@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:07 AM To: Si-List (E-mail) Subject: [SI-LIST] Resistance Hi, When you calculate the DC resistance of wires and traces, which resistivity values should be used or more practical ? Most books give 1/5.8e-7 = 1.724e-8 for pure cooper. However, Dr. Johnson's book gives 6.787e-7 (p.411) and he explained his reasons. On p.409, he mentioned that " the authors have used MathCad to evaluate each of the following formulas in well-known test cases...". Obviously, the two values are quit different, three times ! So, please provide your suggestion ? Thanks. Mick ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field 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