Hi! All, I am new to transmission lines: so I would greatly appreciate of someone could give me some leads on the following. I am employing a dual-ended parallel termination scheme for a GTL+ bus. The driver has the capacity to sink 50mA. The Vol is .5 and the Voh is 1.5, and the Vref is 1.0 [Nominal]. When employing a 50ohm termination scheme I see a voltage swing of 1.15 Volts at the driver, with Vol gone down to 0.3 Volts. The nominal values are 1.5 and 0.5. I get bit errors, that go away when Vref is lowered to 0.8 Volts. Could this be a case of unmatched termination? In addition: these is this additional equation that I cannot relate to the characteristic impedance of the trace. Iol[max] = .050 Amps. Iol = Vtt - Vol / R[eff]. R[eff] = 1.5 - 0.5 / .050 = 20 ohms. For a dual ended termination scheme Rtt = 20 * 2 = 40 ohms.Thanks,Daniel --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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