Dear Istvan and Craig, Thank you for your response. However, Far-end crosstalk is indeed getting saturation. You can easily find lots of related information by Googling "crosstalk saturation". Dr. Zhen Mu has several papers addressed on this topic. Elie Michael Issa also mentioned the saturation length condition. Typically, the far-end crosstalk is assumed to be proportional to coupled length. However, the estimation of linear far-end crosstalk is correct only if the system is weakly coupled transmission. From conservation point of view, it is not reasonable that the coupled energy is increased without limitation. Meanwhile, the saturation phenomenon can be explained by Modal Velocity. The mechanism of "crosstalk" is the result of velocity discrepancy of different modes. BRs, Sogo Hsu, Ph. D. Foxconn --- In si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Istvan Novak <istvan.novak@xxxx> wrote: > Near-end crosstalk saturates at a length matching the > quarter wavelength in the coupled section. Far-end > crosstalk, however, does not saturate any 'fixed' length; > the saturation depends also on the coupling. The weaker > the coupling, the longer coupled length you need for saturation. > > Regards, > > Istvan Novak > SUN Microsystems > > Sogo Hsu wrote: > > >Hi, SI Gurus, > > > >It seems a old question in SI-list. Right now, we evaluated the > >crosstalk noise cased by neighboring aggressors. As we know, the far- > >end crosstalk noise is proportional to coupled length and will be > >saturation if the coupled etching length is greater than constraint > >length. The phenomenon can be easily explained by the discrepancy of > >modal velocity in coupled-transmission line. However, we found the far- > >end crosstalk simulated by Hspice, PCB SI and SPEED XP etc., will not > >behave the saturation even the coupled length is 100in. In my opinion, > >it is not reasonable. Pls help me to verify the solver. Thank you in > >advance. > > > >* I briefly describe the scenarios as below > >3-line coupled transmission line > >Tr=1ns > > > >Best Regards, > >Sogo Hsu > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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