Lucas, There are several books that discuss this, Dr. J's first book pops to mind(Howard Johnson - Handbook of Black Magic), but there are several others, (Hall, Hall, & McCall - High Speed Digital System Design), B. Young (Digital Signal Integrity), etc.. If you haven't read those, that would be a good place to start. Ken -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lucas Bossetti Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:04 AM To: weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Power Consumption of a bus Steve, I need to estimate the power drawn from the power supply. The bus doesn't use parallel terminators. Thanks Lucas ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve weir" <weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <Lucas_Bossetti@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:45 AM Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Power Consumption of a bus > > Lucas, > > First, are you trying to figure out: > > 1. Power drawn from the power supply? > 2. Heat dissipated in the I/O drivers? > 3. Both? > > A good deal of both the AC and DC power drawn from the power supply can go > into the terminators and will not appear as heat in the drivers. > > Regards, > > > Steve. > At 08:49 AM 3/14/2003 +0100, Lucas Bossetti wrote: > > >Could someone tell me how to estimate the power consumption of the I/O power > >pins of a device? > > > >Thanks > > > >Lucas > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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