If the characteristic impedance is, for example,70ohm,there is no reason to design a 100ohm transmission line.You can do a simulation running through the whole link,including all the discontinuities,maybe,you can decide what the best value is. --- Original Message --- From: "Chen, Sherman" <sherman.chen@xxxxxxx> Sent: January 26, 2015 9:37 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] optimal tline impedance 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