Eric Bogatin signal integrity class San Jose (Oct 8-9), Chicago (Nov 28-29)

Well, I told you about signal integrity EMI/RFI hotshot Henry Ott a few weeks ago. I also noticed that Eric Bogatin is giving a class in San Jose on October 8-9, 2007 and another class in Chicago November 28-29, 2007. The cost is $1,895. If there is a site license agreement the cost is $1,232. On October 10^th Eric will give a course on the Agilent ADS (pdf) and on the 11^th he will talk about best board layout practice (pdf). The classes will be great and I would go, except the Boston Suits are calling me back to beantown, that week. Eric is a well-known signal integrity guru and a great teacher. From Eric’s pdf flier:

How Do I Register? Online at www.BeTheSignal.com, call 913-393-1305 or email sales[put da-at sign here]BeTheSignal.com for questions and group discounts.
Essential Principles of Signal Integrity Build your engineering intuition with this two-day lecture/demo workshop, designed and offered by Signal Integrity Evangelist Dr. Eric Bogatin. In this introductory course, the math is stripped away to reveal the underlying truth of how interconnects affect signal integrity. The most essential principles of signal integrity will be introduced and reviewed, including principles of:

• Ground bounce and cross talk
• Characteristic Impedance
• Bandwidth
• Reflections
• Power delivery network design
• Inductance
• Differential Pairs
• Impedance

Each of these principles is illustrated by examples of measurements or simulations using structures such as IC packages, connectors, printed circuit boards and cables.
What You’ll Gain

1. What really is characteristic impedance and how do geometry and material properties affect it.
2. What really is inductance and how does design affect it.
3. What is ground bounce, How does it arise, and what can be done in the design to minimize it.
4. What really is differential impedance and how does design affect it.
5. What do decoupling capacitors do in the PDN
6. What are the most important rules of thumb that should be used every day.

All attendees receive a copy of Dr. Bogatin’s book, Signal Integrity –Simplified, a copy of the Bogatin Enterprises publication Appendix A and a one-month unlimited site license to the web based training at BeTheSignal.com.
Course Outline Day One Signal Integrity Problems and Solutions

• Problems and solutions for single-ended lines in busses
• Problems and solutions for high speed serial links
• Problems and solutions for the PDS and EMI

Characteristic Impedance and Current Distributions

• Instantaneous impedance
• Characteristic impedance
• Return currents

Reflections, Terminations and Topologies

• The origin of reflections
• Measuring and simulating reflections
• Termination and topology strategies

Differential Impedance

• Differential and common signals, even and odd mode impedances
• Differential impedance, coupling and return currents
• Simulating differential circuits

Day Two Cross Talk and Ground Bounce

• Capacitive and inductive coupling
• The origin of NEXT and FEXT in coupled lines
• Minimizing NEXT and FEXT by design

Ground Bounce

• The physical basis of inductance
• Total inductance and the return path
• Minimizing ground bounce in packages and connectors

Impedance and the PDN

• Impedance goals for the core logic
• Low frequency with VRM, high frequency on chip, package limitations
• Mid frequency with decoupling capacitors, mounting inductance and board effects

Rise Time, Bandwidth and High Speed Effects

• Rise time and bandwidth of a signal
• Bandwidth of an interconnect or a model
• High frequency effects of transmission lines

The above is just for the first two days—check out Eric’s site for the classes on the last two days. If there is a signal integrity navy with cruisers, destroyers and carriers then Eric, Howard Johnson and Henry Ott are certainly carrier-class heavyweights.

Speaking of heavyweights I got a call yesterday from Ed Sayre over at NESA. He liked my TDR article and has been using both TDR and network analyses for decades. Ed’s company can help with design as well signal integrity, all in a day’s work. Ed will be at the Advanced TCA Summit in Santa Clara October 16-18 2007. I hope to stop by and see Ed as well as learn what’s new in telecom.