Digital Transmission Lines: Computer Modelling and Analysis: with CD-ROM

The most important contribution of this book is its method of simulating crosstalk and providing design tools for its control between closely spaced traces on a circuit board. The approach is unique to this book. It begins with an introduction to the transmission line equations and progresss to the solution for the signals on networks of multi-wire lined in layered dielectric media. It further develops a method (and supplies computer code) to include the skin effect in the propagation algorithm. All solution algorithms for digital signals are time stepping algorithms that lend themselves to intuitive understanding. The book is in five parts: I. Transmission Line Fundamentals, II. Circuit Solutions at Line Terminations, III. Propagation in Layered Media, IV. Transmission Line Parameter Determination, and V. Simulation of Skin Effect. Methods are explained that the author has successfully used to simulate multi-wire transmission line signal propagation. A contemporary need for these methods exists among those who design or simulate transmission lines that carry digital signals. Such engineers must have both an understanding of the mechanisms of propagation and crosstalk and a means of quantitatively evaluating them. The book provides expanations to enhance understanding of signal propagation and crosstalk amd mathematical algorithms for their numerical evaluation. It also provides design methods for reducing crosstalk between traces on a multi-layered circuit board. Numerous exercises, hint, problems, and computer codes (in the C language) all serve to solicit reader involvement. An accompanying CD-ROM contains all source codes from the text as well as executable demo versions of commercial CAD codesv that illustrate use of the principles in the book. Intented for senior and/or graduate level students in electrical engineering or computer science, this book is suitable for software engineers, electronic design engineers, and electromagnetic research professionals in the field.