If I'm understanding your intent, RF designers have been doing that for decades. This method of impedance matching is only good over a relatively narrow bandwidth. For pulses, bit streams, etc, unless there's a problematic harmonic or other component that can be treated without disrupting everything else, perhaps not a great deal of use in the 'digital domain'. -- Mark Randol, RF Evaluation & Application Engineer ON Semiconductor 901 S. Mopac Expressway Barton Oaks 4, Suite 343 Austin, TX 78746 512-329-5640 (voice), 512-329-8151 (FAX) =20 =20 > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Cheng > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:29 PM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: AC Coupled Signals >=20 > There is a theory out there that claim the AC cap pad=20 > presents itself as =3D a lower impedance and thus can reflect=20 > any impedance mismatch =3D experienced by the imperfect=20 > receiver terminator or the receiving chip =3D parasitic=20 > capacitance which can be quite off at high speed from the=20 > line =3D impedance. One can take advantage of both phenomenon=20 > by adjusting the =3D placement of the AC cap pad and thus can=20 > bounce any reflection back to =3D the terminator and help (or=20 > hurt) the imperfect termination. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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