Chai, The slide is correct. To determine the impact, you need to know four things: 1) The crosstalk coefficient. 2) The rise/fall time of the signals. 3) The amplitude of the signals. 4) The voltage swing from high or low to the switching threshold Find the aggressor slope from 2) and 3), and multiply by 1) to get the delta slope. Add or subtract the delta slope to the victim nominal slope to get the net rising / falling slope on the victim. Divide the voltage swing 4) by the net slope to obtain the new switching delay. Subtract this number from the value obtained with an unaffected trace to obtain the timing shift. There was also a paper delivered on this at DesignCon 2002, but I believe you must pay for the proceedings to get it. The paper dealt with these effects in chips and some software to estimate it. But, the physics apply at the board level as well. Regards, Steve. At 03:44 PM 2/25/2002 +0800, Ched-Chang Chai wrote: >Hi All, >I have some questions regarding the impact of crosstalk on bus timing. >Referring to a presenataion slide, it states that crosstalk between adjacent >bus bits affects edge speed, either make it slower or faster, depending on >either EVEN (signal transitions at the adjacent traces are the same as the >one at the victim trace) or ODD mode (signal transitions at the adjacent >traces are opposite to the one at the victim trace) configuration is used. >My questions are as below: >(1) Given certain trace geometries and signal rise times, are there any >equations which can be used to estimate this effect quantitatively? >(2) Any good references on this subject? >(3) I would appreciate if anyone could brief me the theory behind. >Thank you very much in advance. >-- >Regards, >Chai > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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