RMCEMC August Meeting

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Our last meeting was.. Multi-Gigabit Design - Design Challenges and Options and Simulation Solutions

Speaker: Presenter: Ian Dodd (bio)

Date : August 26th 2004

What we saw:. In this presentation we looked at the the high speed design challenge involved in new bus and I/O designs and an overview of the multi-gigabit architecture was presented. We discussed the reasons for moving to a multi gigabit design and compare the new design challenges to the "traditional" high speed design. The design challenge of actually implementing the multi gigabit design was presented with a review of the transmission line physical parameters. We then looked at the final analysis of the transmission line design - the eye diagram and looked at various ways to identify the problems and some options on improving the signal quality. A review of the challenges in simulating the printed circuit board performance was also presented.

Speaker Bio

Ian C. Dodd Ian graduated with a BSc (with honours) in Physics from Loughborough University, England and a MSc, in Technological Economics, Stirling University, Scotland.

Ian started his career as an EE, designing intelligent, networked data acquisition and control systems. The first of these were for high voltage power distribution. Later he moved into oil and gas automation. Very early Ian started doing co-design of hardware and software. As the software content increased, he transitioned over to full time software development.

For the last 18 years, Ian has been employed in creating Electric Design Automation tools, with the last 14 years specializing in Signal Integrity tools. Ian was the principal engineer on the first and second generation SI tools from VeriBest Inc (formerly Intergraph Electronics). He is presently the High Speed Tools Architect at Mentor Graphics