mikal
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My apoligies for the multi post, but I realized that I might get more responses from the u-wave group...
My question is with series terminations/matching on a typical high speed PCB bus design, versus matching to say, transmission lines, like when you transition between impedances on a microstrip circuit...
--------------------------here is my question-------------
On occasion it is neccesary to use matching resistors to transition between impedances, wether it be in the RF world or in the Digital world.
Can someone please explain to me, why in the RF world, you calculate this value using;
R = SQRT(Rsource*Rtline)
But in the PCB digital world, you use;
R = Rtline - Rsource
thanks
My question is with series terminations/matching on a typical high speed PCB bus design, versus matching to say, transmission lines, like when you transition between impedances on a microstrip circuit...
--------------------------here is my question-------------
On occasion it is neccesary to use matching resistors to transition between impedances, wether it be in the RF world or in the Digital world.
Can someone please explain to me, why in the RF world, you calculate this value using;
R = SQRT(Rsource*Rtline)
But in the PCB digital world, you use;
R = Rtline - Rsource
thanks