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PCB laminates influence high-speed data rates, Part 2

In the first part of this article, I described skew, where it comes from and the problems it causes. Here, I will describe how to avoid and/or fix skew. As a brief overview, differential signaling has ...
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Material Evidence: How Laminate Properties Impact the PCB Design Process

Why today’s high-speed, high-frequency designs have very little “wiggle room” within them relative to laminate properties. Why the end-product’s application and performance determine the most critical ...
Electronic Design

GigaSync Laminates and Prepreg Eliminate Fiber Weave-Induced Skew Issues

Isola Group S.a.r.l. announced its new low loss, low skew, high-speed material, GigaSync (tm). This product has been engineered to eliminate skew issues in high-speed designs that use differential ...
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PCB laminates influence high-speed data rates

The Faster We Go, The More We Need to Know: The role that PCB laminates play in achieving high speed data rates. Taking this somewhat ambiguous subtitle and putting some parameters and definers around ...