Jerry & Julia, If you know the wire diameters, impedance and dB loss, I can make you a model. Patrick O'Shea Director of Business Development Hytek, Engineering & Manufacturing Services 923 Berryessa Road San Jose, CA 95133 Direct: 408.727.9770 x 228 Cell: 408.593.3241 www.hytekservices.com www.hyteksupport.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Martinson" <jmartinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <julia.nekrylova@xxxxxxxxx>; <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: The model of Cat 5 UTP cable > > Julia, > > I'm trying to do this too and I'm finding that this is a very complex > subject (although I didn't think it would be easy). Depending on what > you want to model, there are a variety of models and methods to use and > only some are openly described in the literature. There are many types > of UTP cable installed in the field and they have different parameters. > > > It would be nice if someone had done some sort of modal decomposition > technique to extract all the parameters of UTP cable, do this to a > variety of cables that are out there in the field, and develop "corner > case" cable SPICE models to cover this so that we could simulate to > them. This is a science project beyond my available resources but if > anyone knows of an effort to do this that is described in a book > somewhere, I'd like to hear about it. > > I've also heard from a similar post to check out the following book: > > Transmission Line Design Handbook (Artech House Microwave Library) > by Brian C. Wadell. I ordered this but I haven't gotten it yet so I'm > not sure how well it covers the subject. > > There are some models centered around ESD cable discharge that I think > Rick Brooks from Nortel developed found at: > http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ad_hoc/copperdis/public/docs/cat5_r > lc.rlc > http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ad_hoc/copperdis/public/docs/ > > I'm not sure if there are any intellectual property use restrictions on > using this model - you'd have to double-check this. > > Since I don't have access to HSPICE anymore, sometimes I've used this > for quick, crude approximations for two-wires of UTP but it has a number > of modeling deficiencies: > > .subckt utp_one_foot in1 in2 out1 out2 > x1 in1 in2 1 2 utp_one_inch > x2 1 2 3 4 utp_one_inch > x3 3 4 5 6 utp_one_inch > x4 5 6 7 8 utp_one_inch > x5 7 8 9 10 utp_one_inch > x6 9 10 11 12 utp_one_inch > x7 11 12 13 14 utp_one_inch > x8 13 14 15 16 utp_one_inch > x9 15 16 17 18 utp_one_inch > x10 17 18 19 20 utp_one_inch > x11 19 20 21 22 utp_one_inch > x12 21 22 out1 out2 utp_one_inch > .ends utp_one_foot > > .subckt utp_one_inch in1 in2 out1 out2 > r1 in1 int1 0.01 > r2 in2 int2 0.01 > c12 int1 int2 1.42p > l1 int1 out1 35.5n > l2 int2 out2 35.5n > k12 l1 l2 0.4 > .ends utp_one_inch > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nekrylova, Julia [mailto:julia.nekrylova@xxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:27 AM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] The model of Cat 5 UTP cable > > > Good Morning, > > Could somebody point me to a website or literature source > where I can find transmission line model of the Cat 5 UTP > (unshielded twisted pair) cable? You know, you can sometimes run across > a > manager > who would "kindly ask" you to simulate 100 Mbps Ethernet :) > > Thanks, > Julia > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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: =20 > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages=20 > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > =20 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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