Practical Guide to Transmission Line Design and Characterization for Signal Integrity Applications
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What Are Transmission Lines and Why You Should Care
1.1 Do We Really Need Another Transmissi
1.2 All Interconnects Are Transmission L
1.3 The Importance of Measurement or Cha
1.4 When Are Interconnects Not Transpare
1.5 Why the RF World is Different from t
1.6 Review Questions
Chapter 2 Essential Principles of Signal on Interconnects
2.1 All Interconnects are Transmission Lines
2.2 Signals Are Dynamic

2.3 A Simple Free Tool to Illustrate the Propagation of a Signal
2.4 Time Delay and Wiring Delay
2.5 Signals See an Instantaneous Impedance
2.6 Instantaneous Impedance and Characteristic Impedance
2.7 What Happened to the Inductance of the Transmission Line?
2.8 What is Special about 50 Ohms?
2.9 The Paradox of Current Flow into a Transmission Line
2.10 Displacement Current as a New Type of Current
2.11 Return Current in a Transmission Line
2.12 Where Does the Return Current Flow?
2.13 Review Questions
Chapter 3 Categorizing Transmission Lines

3.1 Distinguishing Metrics
3.2 Uniform or Nonuniform Transmission Lines
3.3 Single-Ended or Differential
3.4 Uncoupled or Coupled
3.5 Lossless and Lossy Transmission Lines
3.6 Balanced or Unbalanced
3.7 Review Questions
Chapter 4 Five Impedances of a Transmission Line
4.1 The Instantaneous Impedance
4.2 Characteristic Impedance
4.3 The Surge or Wave Impedance
4.4 The Input Impedance in the Time Domain
4.5 Drawing Circuits with Resistors and Transmission Lines
4.6 Input Impedance in the Frequency Domain

4.7 A Few Special Cases for the Input Impedance in the Frequency Domain
4.8 Which is Better, the Frequency or the Time Domain Impedance?
4.9 Review Questions
Chapter 5 Why We Care About Impedance: Reflections
5.1 Reflections Keep the Universe from Blowing Up
5.2 The Reflection and Transmission Coefficient
5.3 Using the Reflection Coefficient and Transmission Coefficient
5.4 An Important Distinction Between the Signal and the Voltage
5.5 Important Termination Special Case: A 50-Ohm Resistive Load
5.6 Important Termination Special Case:

5.7 Important Termination Case: A Short
5.8 Resolving the Paradox: Where Did 2V
5.9 Another Paradox: The Signal Launched into the Transmission Line
5.10 Review Questions
Chapter 6 Analyzing Reflections with the Bounce Diagram
6.1 A Typical TX-RX Circuit
6.2 The Bounce Diagram: An Example
6.3 Simulating the Dynamic Nature of Reflections
6.4 Special Case: Short at the Far End
6.5 Circuits with an Interface between Two Tranmission Lines
6.6 Try These Examples of Transmission Line Circuits
6.7 Review Questions