Umesha: Both Tyco and Teradyne show some via capacitance values in the presentations on their latest high speed connectors. Unfortunately they are provided under NDA. I believe some of the teradyne values are in last year's DesignCon papers. The TDA software lets you extract the values from TDR plots. A paper in the HP Journal, Article 11, April 1996, Measuring Parasitic Capacitance and Inductance Using TDR by David Dascher tells you how to do it without the software. Perhaps someone who has made measurements could send some measured values on similar thickness boards. Kai Keskinen C-MAC Engineering A Solectron Company 425 Legget Drive, Kanata, ON K2K 2W2 kkeskinen@xxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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