Senthil, I think you are referring to the dispersion caused by coupling adjacent legs of a serpentine. Dr. Johnson offered a rule of thumb, but not a hard formula. The more parallel legs, and / or the longer the parallel legs are, the greater the risetime degradation. Regards, At 02:38 PM 6/11/01 +0500, you wrote: >In Howard johnson article on serpentine delays. For 1ns rise time signal >the maximum useful coupled-switchback length is arrived as >about 1 in. (2 in. round trip). Is this 1inch; Is the width of >serpentine structure ? or the total length of U ?. >Please let me know. >Thanking You >Senthil Selvam.V > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from si-list: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field >For help: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > >List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >Old 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 For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu