Patrick, Your question is so difficult to answer because it begs so many other questions that need answers: - what do you mean by "dual stripline config"? Dual stripline differential pair? Two orthogonal asymmetric striplines? - which board substrate? FR4? N4000-13 SI? - what do you mean by "speed"? Data rate? Velocity of wave propagation? - which rise time? - which data pattern? random? 8B/10B encoded? - with or without pre-emphasis/equalization? - what link type? chip-to-chip on a board? chip-to-chip across a backplane? - which link performance parameters? eye mask? jitter? - which link discontinuities? vias? packages? pads? - etc? In short, max. data-rate (if that's what you meant by speed) supported by a certain PCB trace configuration is a function of soooo many variables. Regards. Hassan. On Jul 3 , "Patrick O'Shea" <patricko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Gents, > > What is the speed threshold for the use of a dual stripline config on a > copper interconnect <12"? Can you achieve a higher speed with a microstrip, > or dual stripline structure, or does it really matter? > > Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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