Jim, If you are looking for simple rules, then use the same distance as your lateral spacing. BTW, unless your planes are something like 15 mils from the signal layers, ( generally a bad idea ), 50 mils seems like excessive separation for like voltage swing aggressors and victims. Regards, Steve. At 09:06 PM 12/2/2003 +0900, Jim Steigel wrote: >I have a design that needs to route several 1Gbps links, each link has 12 >bits. The design rule that we have specified is 50mil spacing between >links on the same and opposing dual strip line layers. > >The question comes when one link crosses another link orthogonally, what >should the rule be for the distance from the crossing point to where the >trace begins not being perpendicular? > >Regards, > >Jim > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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.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 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