Laddering wave in serpentine delay line

Author

Wu, Ruey-Beei ; Chao, Fang-Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

18

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

644

Lastpage

650

Abstract

The backward propagating crosstalk among the sections of a serpentine delay line accumulates to appear as a laddering wave in the receiving waveform. This occurrence results in severe signal distortion and may significantly reduce the desired time delay. A novel wave tracing analysis is proposed to describe qualitatively the waveform of the laddering wave. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis based on the modal decomposition theory is derived to predict the level of each ladder. The theory has been verified from the comparison of the numerical results with those obtained by the detailed SPICE simulation and the TDT measurement

Keywords

crosstalk; delay lines; transmission line theory; backward propagating crosstalk; laddering wave; modal decomposition theory; serpentine delay line; signal distortion; time delay reduction; wave tracing analysis; Chaos; Clocks; Crosstalk; Delay effects; Delay lines; Distributed parameter circuits; Propagation delay; Synchronization; Transmission lines; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, Part B: Advanced Packaging, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9894

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/96.475270

Filename

475270