Depends on whether you mean electron flow or "current" flow. The diagram depicts electron flow. And, yes, the topic was focused only on I/O SSO. Lee W. Ritchey Speeding Edge P. O. Box 2194 Glen Ellen, CA 95442 Phone- 707-568-3983 FAX- 707-568-3504 I just used the energy it took to be angry to write some blues. Count Basie > [Original Message] > From: Chris Cheng <Chris.Cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 1/6/2005 4:57:09 PM > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Article discussion on bad packages - I/O > > Larry, > I would completely agree with you on the need to separate the discussion > between I/O core core power distribution. > Today is the first time I actually have a chance to read the actual article > in EE times that starts the original discussion and I am convince that the > intend of the article is on I/O SSO noise, not core noise impact on the > FPGA. > May be it's just me but the first figure in the article looks really funny. > The current flow direction in the figure for 0->1 or 1->0 seems to be in > reversed direction of what the actual flow should be. What do you think ? > Needless to say, they are I/O switching current, not core. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry SMITH [mailto:Larry.Smith@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:28 AM > To: zhang_kun@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Article discussion on bad packages - I/O and core > > > It would help if we would use the SSN language when referring to I/O PI > and transient current language when referring to core. This will help > to reduce confusion and emotional mis-interpretations. The core and I/O > PI problems are significantly different and need to be handled > differently in our hardware architectures. > > By breaking the PI problems down to these levels, I believe we can come > to better agreement on how to handle them. (But then maybe some of the > "entertainment appeal" of SI-list will be lost!) > > regards, > Larry Smith > Sun Microsystems > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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