Abstract:
In one aspect of the invention is a method for reducing crosstalk and maintaining clearances between traces on a printed circuit board design. Crosstalk caused by placing traces a virtual printed circuit board are reduced by placing artificial obstructs, called spacers, between traces and/or between traces and nets to create a user-specified clearance between the traces and/or nets. As additional traces and/or nets are added to the virtual printed circuit board, the spacers are dynamic and adjust accordingly to maintain the specified clearances.
Abstract:
An electrical signal connection, an electrical signaling system, and a method of connecting printed circuit boards. The electrical signal connection having a first conductive via and a second conductive via disposed in a first printed circuit board. A first conductive trace with a first end and a second end has the first end electrically coupled to the first conductive via at a first distance from the top surface of the first printed circuit board. The second end of the first conductive via is electrically coupled to the second printed circuit board. A second conductive trace with a first end and a second end has the first end being electrically coupled to the second conductive via at a second distance from the top surface of the first printed circuit board. The second end being is electrically coupled to the second printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A midplane has a first side to which contact ends of a first differential connector are connected and a second side opposite the first side to which contact ends of a second differential connector are connected. The midplane includes a plurality of vias extending from the first side to the second side, with the vias providing first signal launches on the first side and second signal launches on the second side. The first signal launches are provided in a plurality of rows, with each row having first signal launches along a first line and first signal launches along a second line substantially parallel to the first line. The second signal launches are provided in a plurality of columns, with each column having second signal launches along a third line and second signal launches along a fourth line substantially parallel to the third line.
Abstract:
Electrical mounting boards and methods for their fabrication and use are disclosed herein. In particular, such mounting boards embodiments utilize hybrid ground lines interconnected through a substrate core to form multilayer ground grids. Such hybrid ground lines include groups of substantially parallel ground lines configured such that the groups of ground lines are positioned in transverse arrangement with other groups of ground lines formed on the same level. Such implementations have many uses, including, but not limited to, the ability to more efficiently route signal lines and connect electrical components on a circuit board.
Abstract:
A pattern of contacts that includes high speed transmitter contacts disposed in a first portion of the pattern, where the high speed transmitter contacts are disposed in first ordered channels of adjacent transmitter differential pairs. High speed receiver contacts are disposed in a second portion of the pattern, where the first portion of the pattern is not interspersed with the second portion of the pattern, and the high speed receiver contacts are disposed in first ordered channels of adjacent receiver differential pairs. At least one unbroken line of other contacts is disposed between the first portion of the pattern and the second portion of the pattern, where the other contacts do not contain any high speed transmitter contacts and high speed receiver contacts. Low speed IO contacts are disposed in a third portion of the pattern. The first ordered channels are ordered to match an order of transmitter channels of a connector or another component on a printed circuit board to which the transmitter differential pairs are routed, and the second ordered channels are ordered to match an order of receiver channels of a connector or another component on a printed circuit board to which the receiver differential pairs are routed.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, variations in characteristic impedance and transmission loss of a signal wiring in a glass cloth wiring substrate can be reduced. There is provided a glass cloth wiring substrate in which signal wirings, plural glass cloth layers, and conductor faces are laminated, and spaces between the signal wirings, the plural glass cloth layers, and the conductor faces are impregnated with resin, wherein the glass cloth layers are formed by weaving bundles of glass fibers in a lattice shape, and the adjacent glass cloth layers are laminated on each other while rotating the warp-weft directions of the glass fibers by a predetermined angle with respect to each other. It is preferable that the rotation angle of the warp-weft directions of the glass fibers of the adjacent glass cloth layers falls within a range from 30 to 60 degrees.
Abstract:
A transmission line apparatus includes: a substrate 101 with a ground conductor plane; and first and second signal strips 102a, 102b supported on the substrate 101 in parallel with each other. The apparatus further includes at least one additional capacitance element 301 that connects the first and second signal strips 102a, 102b together. The element 301 includes: a first additional conductor 303 spaced from the first signal strip 102a; a second additional conductor 305 spaced from the second signal strip 102b; and a third additional conductor 307 connected to the first and second additional conductors 303, 305 at respective points. When measured in a signal transmission direction, the smallest width W3a of the third additional conductor 307 is shorter than the length L1 or L2 of the first or second additional conductor 303 or 305. And the additional capacitance element 301 has a resonant frequency that is higher than the frequency of a signal being transmitted.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for high-frequency tuning a high-frequency plug connector, comprising a printed circuit board that has both contact points for high-frequency contacts as well as contact points for insulation displacement contacts. Each contact point for the high-frequency contacts is connected to one respective contact point for the insulation displacement contacts. Capacitive couplings, which cause a near-end crosstalk, occur between the high-frequency contacts. At least one first conductor path, which is connected on only one side to a contact point of an electrical contact, is situated on the printed circuit board that, together with at least one second conductor path, which is situated on and/or in the printed circuit board, forms a capacitor. At least one frequency-dependent parameter of the device is measured, and this frequency-dependent parameter is compared to a set parameter and, according to on a difference between the two, the conductor path that is contacted on one side is partially removed or completely separated.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an interposer substrate for interconnecting between active electronic componentry such as but not limited to a single or multiple integrated circuit chips in either a single or a combination and elements that could comprise of a mounting substrate, substrate module, a printed circuit board, integrated circuit chips or other substrates containing conductive energy pathways that service an energy utilizing load and leading to and from an energy source. The interposer will also possess a multi-layer, universal multi-functional, common conductive shield structure with conductive pathways for energy and EMI conditioning and protection that also comprise a commonly shared and centrally positioned conductive pathway or electrode of the structure that can simultaneously shield and allow smooth energy interaction between grouped and energized conductive pathway electrodes containing a circuit architecture for energy conditioning as it relates to integrated circuit device packaging. The invention can be employed between an active electronic component and a multilayer circuit card. A method for making the interposer is not presented and can be varied to the individual or proprietary construction methodologies that exist or will be developed.
Abstract:
A circuit substrate, which supports optically and electrically conveyed signals, and method for forming the same are provided. The circuit substrate includes a substrate upon which one or more electrically conductive traces are formed, where the electrically conductive traces have areas of isolation between adjacent ones of the electrically conductive traces. The circuit substrate further includes one or more optical waveguides, where the one or more optical waveguides are in the same plane as the one or more electrically conductive traces. The optical waveguides are formed using an optically transmissive material, which is deposited in the areas of isolation between the electrical traces.