Pauric, The LVDS techology will have no problems running at 20Mhz(40Mb/s) over a 15meters CAT 5 cable length. Refer to the attachment illustrating performance of Fairchild Semiconductor's LVDS products performance, Signaling rate vs. Cable Length. As you can see at 40Mb/s, the jitter observed is less than 5%. Other benefits you can realize is reduced EMI with a reduce voltage swing of 350mV. Fairchild offers quad LVDS drivers (FIN1031/FIN1047) and receivers (FIN1032/FIN1048). Regards....Ron (Embedded image moved to file: pic00288.pcx) |---------+-----------------------------> | | Pauric Hennessy | | | <Pauric.Hennessy@v| | | igitek.com> | | | Sent by: | | | si-list-bounce@fre| | | elists.org | | | | | | | | | 08/09/2002 03:08 | | | AM | | | Please respond to | | | Pauric.Hennessy | | | | |---------+-----------------------------> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "'si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | | cc: | | Subject: [SI-LIST] LVDS vs RS422 | >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Hi all, have just subscribed and would greatly appreciate your advice on the following. We are currently utilising a linescan camera to upload data in RS422 @ 20MHz to a host PC. I haven't alot of information on the interconnect cable except that its 32 pairs of twisted pair in a Shielded cable running a length of 15 metres. We are having ongoing problems with signal integrity, manifesting itself as crosstalk, resulting in noisy images being transferred. The camera is available with an LVDS option as well. Given the obvious speed advantages of LVDS, and low levels of transmission, are there any downsides to running LVDS over such a distance.We are endeavouring to re-layout the RS422 receiving(Host) end and adopt hight speed layout techniques which may be a source of a lot of our current problems, but am wondering if LVDS technology will improve things further -it will obviously tighten up propagation delays and allow a greater timing margin on the receiver side. Thanks in advance Pauric Hennessy Design Engineer, Vigitek LTD., Limerick Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/octet-stream -- File: pic00288.pcx ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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