Eric- +------+ --R--L--+---| | | | Z | C |driver| | | | --------+---| | +------+ Assuming your RLC package parasitics and Zdriver are connected as in the = above diagram, vectorially calculate the parallel combo of Zc and = Zdriver and then add that value (vectorially) to the vector sum of Zr + = Zl. Or put the circuit into spice and let it do the number cunching for = you. Zinput =3D Zr + Zl +(Zc // Zdriver) -Ray Raymond Anderson Senior Signal Integrity Staff Engineer Product Technology Department Advanced Package R&D Xilinx Inc. =20 -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Eric Steimle Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:59 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Substrate board impedance added to driver impedance = for total output impedance of driver I'm have a chip that I've done some analysis on to get its driver impedance. However this chip is on a substrate board, and it's drivers run through traces to balls and to the board. I have R, L, and C numbers for the trace/bondwire combination as part of a package model that was made by someone else. The trace in question is =BD inch long = and the frequency of interest is 350Mhz. I've made the assumption that I can use vector addition to add the inductive and resistive contributions together, but I don't know what to do with the capacitive part. I'm also assuming that once I've vector added the inductive, resistive, and capacitive parts together for a total Zpackage that I can then linearly add Zpackage and the Zdriver from previous experiments. Does that seem right? I'm just a little confused on the appropriate steps to take. As always I appreciate the time you all take to read and respond to my questions. =20 Thanks, =20 Eric Steimle =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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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 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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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