Hello, The "output swing control" is meant to increase the output voltage levels in order to compensate for signal attenuation for long transmission lines. This is different from pre-emphasis, it is basically, as you mentioned, just a bigger voltage swing. Regards, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ingraham, Andrew" <Andrew.Ingraham@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Swing control for Gigabit chips > > Out of curiosity (for those of us not familiar with it) ... what is this > "output swing control" you are asking about? > > Is it just a bigger voltage swing? Or some sort of edge rate control? > Or pre-emphasis? > > Thanks, > Andy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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