si-list, I have a colleague who experiences problems with 660Mbit/s LVDS on a cat 6 S/STP cable (stranded coaxial overall shield, differential pairs are foil shielded). The cable is but 3m long. This LVDS chain is used in an industrial machine. One observes: works-->some bit-errors-->receiver cannot lock (for about 500-1000ns)--> relock but some -->bit errors-->works. The errors hard to or impossible to reproduce on a test bench and they seem to occur at random. We do not know the cause but we are trying to improve the quality of the LVDS chain, We use SER/DES 921224/921023 and they are terminated in 100ohm (differentially). Crosstalk measurements have not been performed. After checking the connector we found it to be cat 5, it is specified for NEXT to only 100MHz. The connector NEXT is much worse than the cable next, for example cable NEXT is 90dB at 100MHz but only 40dB for the connector. Because the cable contains both transmit and receive we wonder if we need to improve the connector. Currently we are using a Tyco RJ45 connector (partnumber 406549-1), which is cat 5. I searched the web but I find a large number of dstributors and Tyco does not seem to offer cat 6 RJ 45 PCB jacks. My questions: -1- are category 6 PCB mounted RJ45 jacks common? -2- manufacturers?? -3- any experience to share? Thank you in advance, Jan Vercammen EMC/Signal Integrity Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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