Limiting discontinuities to less than 1/20th bit cell is not a bad starting place. As in all things SI/PI: "It depends." Do you have lots of margin before this consideration or not? Steve. On 3/19/2013 1:35 AM, Balamanikandan K wrote: > Hi, > > "In high-speed designs, a good rule of thumb to remember is that a via stub > should be less than 300mils/BR in length; where BR is the bit rate in > Gb/s." can be found at http://blog.lamsimenterprises.com/ > > > > 1. Is this rule of thumb correct? > > > 2. * **If it is correct*, for the data rate 3.125Gbps ,Thickness of the > PCB= 62 mils and via stub length= 52.9 mils, > > Then via stub length = 52.9 mils < (300mils /3.125) > > < 96 mil > > In this case, is the effect of via stub less? Will the via stub cause any > issue at 3.125Gbps? > > -- Steve Weir IPBLOX, LLC 1580 Grand Point Way MS 34689 Reno, NV 89523-9998 www.ipblox.com (775) 299-4236 Business (866) 675-4630 Toll-free (707) 780-1951 Fax All contents Copyright (c)2012 IPBLOX, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This e-mail may contain confidential material. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all records and notify the sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu