Barthi, A few more items: For cold temps, you will find the fastest ICs (which might cause timing issues in your design) and also the highest current consumption. For cold temps, you will find the slowest ICs (which might cause timing issues). Make sure you do purchase the right ICs for the environment you need your product to operate within. Products are only guaranteed for the conditions that Mfgs warrant. This does not mean Mfgs do full temperature testing; especially at cold since IC handlers tend to freeze up and get icy). Many Mfgs will do characterization experiments to determine how to improve test efficiency (less testing, no burn-in, less test time) while still being able to screen and ship good devices (100% functionality throughout the operating voltage, temperature and silicon mfg). Most testing will be performed with slight temperature guardbands (+2-5 degrees of a spec; 70->74, 85->90, 125-> 128) and if Mfgs can avoid (with characterization proof) that cold temp testing (especially down to -40 or -55) is not required, they will not perform. regards, Bill --- On Wed, 12/16/09, Hermann Ruckerbauer <hermann.ruckerbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Hermann Ruckerbauer <hermann.ruckerbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: AW: Effect of temperature on at 200C for DDR3/4 boards To: barthi1@xxxxxxxxx Cc: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 3:00 PM Hi, I would agree with the previous answers ... don't worry on the PCB performance to much, the degradation of the silicon is what you need to take care. On DRAM side it is not only the change in the OCD (output drivers), but also the refresh timings are getting quite short for 100°C. So you really need to do worst case corner simulations over the whole temperature range. I guess reliability is something you anyhow take a closer look for your temperature range .. regards Hermann EKH - EyeKnowHow Hermann Ruckerbauer www.EyeKnowHow.de Hermann.Ruckerbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Veilchenstrasse 1 94554 Moos Tel.: +49 (0)9938 / 902 083 Mobile: +49 (0)176 / 787 787 77 Fax: +49 (0)3212 / 121 9008 Havermann, Gert schrieb: > Hi Barthi, > > Your question is how the characteristic impedance of the PCB is affected by > high temperatures (100°C)? > > The Temperature shouldn't have a big influence on impedance. The series > resistance will increase, but the result will just be higher losses. The > board sice will increase with temperature, but each differential pair will > just see fractions of this extra size, in my eyes not enough to worry about > impedance changes. > > I don't think you have to worry about temperature related impedance changes > on regular PCB at all, but I can't proof that with simulations or > measurements. > > BR > Gert > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Absender ist HARTING Electronics GmbH & Co. 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Appreciate if anyone sends the literature related to the topic > > Thanks > Barthi > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > 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 technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > > 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu