Alex, Three of my favorite books on this subject are - since people have been recently listing favorite books. High-Speed Digital System Design A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices Stephen H. Hall, G. Hall, J. McCall 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-36090-2 Characterization of Electrical Packages - good bibliography for each chapter. Luc Martens 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN 0-7923-8307-9 High-Speed Digital Design A Handbook of Black Magic Howard Johnson, Martin Graham 1993 Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-395724-1 Regarding simulation environments, a small company preparing for the futu= re might want to consider simulation environments that will support mixed s-parameter/SPICE interconnect modeling. I am thinking of system interconnect simulation as this is an area that is less well known. = Three simulation platforms that meet this criteria are: Ansoft Full Wave= , Avanti StarHSPICE and Agilent ADS. We have the Agilent platform in Germa= ny and here in Virginia and expect to write a requisition for the Ansoft Ful= l Wave package shortly. - especially if they give us a discount for this testimonial. smile. For less exotic needs, there are some public domain Berkeley compatible SPICE only simulators out there. There is also a neat measurement based acquisition and simulation softwar= e tool for multi-gigabit differential cable applications that we also recently purchased - Oculus Cascade - atSpeed Technologies, Inc. (www.atspeedtecnologies.com). = michael munroe = The ERNI Group "Connecting the Next Generation" Chester, Virginia 23836 804-530-4283 voice mail = 804-240-7188 cell phone = 804-530-5232 fax 888-662-6191 pager www.erni.com www.teamZD.com message written by Alex Horvath on 8/30/2001: Hi all, I often have a need to perform spice simulations but I haven't done it fo= r years. Can someone recommend some spice simulators? Also, are there any good books that cover the subject of spice transmissi= on line modeling and I/O buffers? Thanks From: "Alex Horvath" <alexh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Si-List" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [SI-LIST] Spice simulators Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:30:02 -0700 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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