With a uniform breakout of a 1mm BGA, one often sees a pattern such as: O O balls \ \ x x vias ---/ / --------/ diff pair (forgive the crude ascii drawings!) Is there any significant issue to using a pattern like this at 10 Gbps? x /| ____/_| O O ~~~~~ | / | / x Excuse the lack of scale in these drawings, but in both cases the vias are the same distance apart. Assume proper return vias and other factors are the same. If any asymmetry is introduced, it would seem to be no worse than meanders for length matching and other short length discontinuities. Thanks, Gary Stein Network Instruments ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list 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