Mike; I don't quite understand your approach , it seems to me that you will still get large reflection because your load impedance is now complex with the addition of the cap and the real part is still a large impedance. Can you elaborate more ? Thanks Justin -----Original Message----- From: Mike Brown [mailto:bmgman@xxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:08 PM To: kenneth.w.siders@xxxxxxxx Cc: 'si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: LVDS Termination Think about driving the 2 lines in parallel, with only a high-Z path to=20 ground at the receiver input (the condition without the cap). Without=20 the capacitor, the CM reflection coefficient approaches 1. With the=20 cap, it approaches zero. With an appropriate resistor in series with=20 the cap at the CT of the 50 ohms, it can be made to be zero. The obvious drawback is parts count and board real estate. Regards Mike Siders, Kenneth W wrote: >Hello Group, >My question concerns terminating an LVDS receiver with two 50 ohm resistors >in series with a center tap capacitor to ground across the inputs of the >receiver to achieve better common mode noise rejection? What type of >improvement if any will I see. Also, are there any draw back with this type >of termination. > >Regards, >Ken > >Ken Siders >Sr. Design Engineer >Lockheed Martin MFC >5600 Sand Lake Rd. >MP 916 >Orlando, FL 32819-8907 >Phone: (407) 356-4891 >Pager: (888) 363-3411 >Fax: (407) 356-8944 >Email: kenneth.w.siders@xxxxxxxx >L > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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: =20 > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages=20 >Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > =20 > > > =20 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: =20 //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages=20 Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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