For those who will be at DesignCon this year, we hope that you have the opportunity to attend one of the papers or TecForums we are presenting. http://www.designcon.com/2009/attendees/schedule/1_tf_ma_4.asp Fixturing and Calibration Techniques for Obtaining Wide Bandwidth-Measured Data for Time Domain Simulations and Measurement-Based Modeling Monday, February 2 | 9:00 am -- 12:00 pm Heidi Barnes, Senior Consultant, Semiconductor Test Systems, Verigy Fangyi Rao, Agilent Technologies Tom Dagostino, Vice President, Device Modeling Division, Teraspeed Sanjeev Gupta, Signal Integrity Applications Expert, Agilent Technologies Al Neves, Senior Signal Integrity Engineer, Teraspeed Mike Resso, Signal Integrity Applications Expert, Agilent Technologies Bob Schaefer, R&D Project Manager, Agilent Technologies The simple oscilloscope measurement techniques of the past are clearly struggling with the transmission-line effects of multi-gigabit data rates that are now commonplace in consumer products. The ability to accurately measure the performance of an electrical component is critical for guaranteeing its performance as a sub-element in a larger system or for improving the accuracy of system simulations and measurement-based models. This tutorial will focus on the practical side of understanding calibration techniques for obtaining wide-bandwidth data that is viable for use in time domain simulations and measurement-based modeling. http://www.designcon.com/2009/attendees/schedule/12_wa_1.asp Measurement-Assisted Electromagnetic Extraction of Interconnect Parameters on Low-Cost FR--4 boards for 6--20 Gbps Applications Wednesday, February 4 | 8:30 am -- 9:10 am Yuriy Shlepnev, President, Simberian Alfred Neves, Senior Staff Signal Integrity Engineer, Teraspeed Consulting Group Tom Dagostino, Vice President Engineering, Teraspeed Labs Scott McMorrow, President, Teraspeed Consulting The presentation unites interconnect analysis and measure-based verification implementing advanced TRL/LRM calibration along with conditioning of the de-embedded S-parameters. We show practical test cases on a FR4 board to 1 percent correspondence between full-wave modeling and measurements. A test board with 30 test structures has been fabricated and investigated experimentally and numerically over the frequency band from 300 KHz to 20 GHz. To identify properties of the materials, transmission line segments and resonant structures are used. Broadband dielectric models are extracted by comparison of experimental data with results of 3D full wave. http://www.designcon.com/2009/attendees/schedule/10_th_2.asp PCB Power Delivery Optimizations for the Cost-Driven Era Thursday, February 5 | 9:50 am -- 10:30 am Steve Weir, Member Technical Staff, Teraspeed Consulting Group/IPBLOX Tom Dagostino, Vice President, Device Modeling Group, Teraspeed Consulting Group PCB--level power delivery involves choices in PCB laminates, construction, bypass capacitor selection, and placement. We examine currently available choices as they apply to realizing high-performance power delivery while optimizing manufactured cost. We demonstrate results using test vehicles built with current-generation ICs. -- Scott McMorrow Teraspeed Consulting Group LLC 121 North River Drive Narragansett, RI 02882 (401) 284-1827 Business (401) 284-1840 Fax http://www.teraspeed.com Teraspeed® is the registered service mark of Teraspeed Consulting Group LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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