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Key facts
| Types | Professional Development Short Courses |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxford |
| Dates | Thu 20 to Fri 21 Jun 2013 |
| Subject area(s) | Electronic Engineering |
| Fees | From £1095.00 |
| Application status | Applications being accepted |
| Course code | O12C692H6Y |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email electronics@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
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Overview
Howard Johnson's advanced workshop for Digital and Analogue Designers
Howard Johnson returns from the USA for a workshop in Signal Propagation for the last time before his retirement
This will be the last time this course is available anywhere in the world. Ever!
This course is part of Oxford University's High-Speed Digital Engineering Month.
Please send me details about the High-Speed Digital Engineering and EMC programme .
Description
This is an advanced-level course for experienced digital designers who want to press their designs to the upper limits of speed and distance.
Focusing on lossy transmission environments like backplanes, cables and long on-chip interconnections, this course teaches a unified theory of transmission impairments that apply to any transmission media. Topics include: skin effect and dielectric loss, on-chip vs. off-chip transmission-line behaviour, equalization, serial interconnections, lossy media, single-ended and differential signalling, frequency-domain modelling, signal distribution and clock jitter.
This course is an advanced sequel to High-Speed Digital Design by Dr Howard Johnson.
All delegates will receive a free copy of Howard Johnson's "High-Speed Signal Propagation - Advanced Black Magic" DVD. Click here for DVD information.
Benefits
- This is a practical course, filled with practical examples and explanations.
- Delegates without the benefit of formal training in analog circuit theory can use and apply the formulas and examples from this course to determine which of their circuits will encounter difficulties and how to fix them.
- Delegates who have completed (at least) a first-year university level class in introductory linear circuit theory will comprehend the material at a deeper level.
Programme details
Course Content
Fundamentals of Time and Frequency
- Characterize the types of simulation tools available to help you in your design, including the division between linear and non-linear analysis
- Review relations among time, frequency, and the physical extent of a circuit, including rules for dimensional scaling
- Introduce a theorem about maximal resonance
Lossy Transmission Line Parameters
- Model a transmission structure using a cascade of simple linear elements
- Define the characteristic impedance and propagation function
- Trace the flow of returning signal current on an ideal, lossless transmission line
- Calculate DC resistance
- Evaluate AC resistance including skin effect, proximity effect and surface roughness
- Investigate dielectric losses
- Define two-port S-parameter representations of transmission structures, and show how they are used to compute system response
Classroom demonstration: A transmission line is always a transmission line
Performance Regions: On-chip vs. Off-chip
- Present the standard copper performance model
- Explore the hierarchy of transmission-line performance regions
- Study the lumped-element region, useful for understanding small interconnections and transmission-line imperfections
- On-chip connections use the RC region
- PCB interconnections use the skin-effect and dielectric-loss-limited regions
- Show the similarities and differences among the various regions
- Check conditions for existence of undesirable non-TEM modes
- Discuss the need for equalization, and show examples of equalizer circuits
- Investigate DC wander and circuits for DC restoration
Example waveforms: 10 Gb/s serial link with PAM-4 coding and fully adaptive equalizer
Pcb Trace Design and Connectors
- Dissect microstrip and stripline design tables
- Consider the effects of nickel plating and soldermask coating
- Estimate limits to the attainable length of a pcb trace operated at extreme speeds
- Compute the effects of impedance discontinuities caused by stubs and loads and learn to counteract these effects
- Characterize connectors
- Introduce the concept of tapering necessary for certain SMA connector applications
- Scrutinize the capacitance and inductance of a via, including the effect of pad-stripping, back-drilling, blind vias, and dangling via stubs
Classroom demonstration: proximity effect for differential stripline traces Classroom video: experiment showing inductance of vias, and effect of distance to the nearest inter-plane connection
Differential Signalling
- Define differential and common-mode voltages, currents, impedance and differential S-parameters
- Present design tables for both edge-coupled and broadside-coupled differential traces
- Cite the specific advantages of differential signalling including improved tolerance to ground shifts, reduced radiation, and better tolerance of high-frequency losses
- Discuss management of differential skew
Clock Distribution and Jitter
- Review special requirements for clock signalling including low skew
- Consider means of attaining exceptionally low skew
- Emphasize the importance of terminating clock lines
- Provide advice on routing differential clocks
- Show why serpentine delays (source one from loads multiple driving for strategies) often deliver poor results
- Discuss the general issue of distributing high-quality signals to multiple loads
- Show how to construct and test a proper daisy-chain, "T", or "H" distribution
- Define clock jitter, clock jitter propagation, methods for measuring jitter, and the emerging issue of random versus deterministic jitter budgeting
All delegates can purchase a copy of Dr Johnson's book "High- Speed Signal propagation: Advanced Black Magic."
All delegates will receive a free copy of Howard Johnson's "High-Speed Signal Propagation - Advanced Black Magic" DVD.
First day registration from 8.30am when course materials will
be distributed.
Refreshments from 8.30am on the first day plus two 30 minute
breaks during the day and a one-hour lunch break.
The course will begin at 9.00am and end at approximately 5.00pm
on each day.
Staff
Dr Howard Johnson
Role: Speaker
Dr Howard Johnson, author of "High-Speed Digital Design" and "High-Speed Signal...more
Certification
Sample certificate
.Participants who satisfy the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Attendance. The pdf sample above is an illustration only, and the wording will reflect the course and dates attended.
Level and demands
This is an advanced course for Digital logic engineers, chip designers, system architects, EMC specialists, and applications engineers; anyone working with digital logic at speeds in excess of 1 GHz.
Accommodation
Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.
Payment
Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.
All courses are VAT exempt.
Fee options
- Programme Fee
- Standard Course Fee: £1095.00
- Standard Course Fee (including 1 copy of the reference book): £1165.00
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If you would like to discuss your application or any part of the application process before applying, please contact:
Course Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)1865 286958
Email: electronics@conted.ox.ac.uk
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Programmes including this module
This module can be studied as part of these programmes: