Rod, You should have no problem using twisted flat ribbon cable at your signal speed. SCSI supports twisted flat cable for a data rate of 160 Mb/s per data line (320 MB/s for the bus at a clock rate of 80 MHz) over 12 meters with multidrop, and 25 meter for point-to-point transmission. Regards, Ravinder PCB Development and Design Department IBM Corporation Email: ajmani@xxxxxxxxxx *************************************************************************** Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. .... Mark Twain Rod Barman <rodb@xxxxxxxx> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc: si-list-bounce@fr Subject: [SI-LIST] 550 Mbps LVDS Cable and Connector eelists.org Help 07/09/2002 10:33 PM Please respond to rodb Hi All, I'm hoping them some kind folks can help me out with a cost effective connector and cable solution to transmit LVDS signals 50cm or less. We have 5 channel link 100 ohm differential pairs up to a remote circuit board and 5 differential channel link 100 ohm pairs down. The clock rate is 75 MHz which turns into a bit rate of 525 Mpbs on the data lines. I don't believe ribbon cable twisted or not would work at these speeds and distances. If possible we'd like to use something off the shelf or at least readily available. It looks like Tyco's precision interconnect and 3M have lots of suitable solutions but they all appear to be quite expensive. DVI comes close but doesn't have enough available pairs. I was wondering if SCSI VHDCI cables and connectors might work, even though this would give us an excess of pairs. If anyone has any suggestions it would be much appreciated. Thanks --rod. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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