Assuming you have a target impedance and your channel contains a lot of variables, including vias, different transmission lines, connectors (and you also may need consider the variation) DOE (Design of experiment) can be used to find an optimal combination. I believe there should be some more simpler method by my gut feeling, but I have not found it yet.:( On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Scott McMorrow <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The answer to your question is ... yes. A statistical channel simulation > will help to show where the channel impedance will be centered. > On Jan 25, 2015 8:40 PM, "Chen, Sherman" <sherman.chen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > This idea may incur some controversial. Hope it's worthwhile. > > It's like this: > > In channel design, the optimal tline impedance actually depends on the > > fixed impedances of TX, RX, and connector, etc. Through optimization you > > can locate the best impedance for the trace, and it's not necessarily > 85Ohm > > or 100Ohm. In this case, to explore every cent of the system performance > > potential, should we jump out of the frame of 85Ohm/100Ohm and choose to > > use other values? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Sherman Chen > > Signal Integrity > > EMC Global Hardware Engineering > > Tel: +86 21 60951100-3329 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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