Sherman, it does not really matter, if the PCB vendor shoots for 85ohms or for example 79ohm or 87ohm. As long as they do not have to use extreme line widths or end up with the need to choose a material with very low or very high resin content, they are all similar in difficulty. However, we all like to use things, that have worked in the past. So if you stick with "standard" / typical impedance values, the PCB vendor may have used a construction in the past, that fulfills your needs. So instead of using a new stripline building block and having to optimize again, they like to use building blocks, they already have optimized. So from this second argument, there is some merit in staying with the 85 or 100 ohms. Best regards,alex  From: "Chen, Sherman" <sherman.chen@xxxxxxx> To: Scott McMorrow <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 8:04 AM Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: optimal tline impedance Thanks. Any practical concern from PCB vendor such as they are more deft in 85Ohm or 100Ohm impd control? Best Regards, Sherman Chen Signal Integrity EMC Global Hardware Engineering Tel: +86 21 60951100-3329 From: Scott McMorrow [mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 10:05 AM To: Chen, Sherman Cc: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] optimal tline impedance 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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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