Dear Eric and Istvan: Yes ,"do not introduce any local skew" ,Istavan's clarification is very helpful in practical design, and I also have myth on this problem: How to compensate for the local skew ? For example ,the bend discontinuities of differential pairs,the msot common practical routing scheme using a small detour for the inner trace of coupled bends,but does this compensation affect the common mode noise? Some paper suggest different routing schemes like shunt a compensation capacitance at the bends, but it's not very practical to use, Can we find better ways? Thanks and happy new year! LIU Luping Msg: #5 in digest Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:59:03 -0500 From: istvan Novak <Istvan.Novak@xxxxxxx> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: mode conversion myth Hi Eric, Yes, in general I agree with your description, I would add one clarification, though. With a spatial resolution determined by the bandwidth of signal we want to push through the differential interconnect, we need to keep the electrical symmetry between the legs all along the way. In particular, when it comes to propagation delay, it is very important that not only the end-to-end propagation delay is kept similar, but we do not introduce any local skew. This becomes important when we have to decide where and how we compensate for known skew contributors. Regards, Istvan ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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