Apart from the excellent responses already received I would recommend app note # AND8020-D by Paul Shockman of OnSemi. It is a tutorial on ECL terminations and is available from www.onsemi.com under the technical documentation tab. Suresh "Ingraham, Andrew" wrote: > > The recommended Termination for PECL has a 220ohms to ground on each > > leg of > > the differential pair at the driver end. Can anyone explain what is > > the > > purpose of 220ohms. If it is to damp the reflections from the receiver > > why > > 220ohms ?. Is it good to design without the 220ohms. > > ECL/PECL are similar to open-drain or open-collector outputs, in that > the driver only pulls one way. Open-drain outputs only pull down, and > you must have an external pull-up resistor. ECL/PECL outputs only pull > up, and you must have an external pull-down resistor. Otherwise, you > don't get any signal. > > With ECL (and PECL is essentially the same), there were two standard > recommended "terminations". > > (1) Wires longer than "several" inches (depending on rise/fall times) > require true terminations to control overshoot and ringing, typically > about 50-75 ohms (to match the impedance of your wires). The resistor > should be at the receiver end, and goes to Vtt. It serves the dual > purpose of terminating the transmission line, and providing the current > path to keep the output transistor conducting. (One could use a > two-resistor combination that was electrically identical to 50 ohms to > Vtt, without requiring a Vtt supply.) > > (2) Shorter wires can have just a pulldown resistor to Vee (=ground when > using PECL). The resistor could be anywhere, driver or receiver end. > Typically 220 or 330 ohms to Vee works pretty well. The advantage is no > need for a Vtt supply, or less power dissipation than the two-resistor > Thevenin equivalent. > > Other variations are possible, including pulldowns plus series > termination resistors. No matter what you do, you need to provide a DC > path from the output pin to a more negative voltage (Vtt or Vee), or it > doesn't work. > > If you have AC (capacitor) coupling between one stage and the next, you > need to put a pulldown resistor before the capacitor (i.e., somewhere > near the driver), even if the line is long and there is also a matched > termination at the receiver end. The pulldown does not terminate or > damp reflections. However, in this case there is an extra thing to > consider. The pulldown resistor is needed not only to keep the > transistor conducting, but also because the current to the AC coupled > load, flows both ways. So the pulldown resistor has to be small enough > to keep the transistor conducting a little, even when the output > switches from high to low and the resistor sinks the transient load > current too. > > Andy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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