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Insertion Loss Reduction using Rounded Corners to Mitigate Surface Roughness Effect in Pcb Transmission Lines
2022 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, APEMC 2022
  • Yuandong Guo
  • DongHyun Kim, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Yuanzhuo Liu
  • Xiaoning Ye
  • Jimmy Hsu
  • Jun Fan, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Signal integrity (SI) can be interpreted as a measure of the distortion of the incident pulse, which is attributed to various contributors, e.g., inter-symbol interference (ISI), crosstalk, jitter, etc. The channel insertion loss is generally the most critical concern in SI designs, since it determines the working bandwidth of a high-speed channel, and the bandlimited channels are known as the root cause of ISI. At the tens of Gigabit rates in use today, PCB transmission lines may have appreciable losses, which can be divided into frequency-dependent dielectric loss and conductor loss, and noticeable amount of losses can be generated at high-frequencies due to the skin effect and copper rough surfaces. In order to reduce the additional conductor loss due to the surface roughness, the employment of low-profile copper foils is a common practice in high-speed digital design. However, this existing method is not cost-effective. In this paper, insertion loss reduction using rounded corners are proposed and verified using both 2D and 3D full-wave simulations for the first time. Rounded corners can mitigate the increased insertion loss due to copper surface roughness in PCB transmission lines and can be applied in high-speed interconnect designs to increase eye margins. The impact of applying rounded corners on far-end crosstalk is also discussed.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Comments

National Science Foundation, Grant IIP-1916535

Keywords and Phrases
  • channel loss,
  • conductor loss,
  • dielectric loss,
  • far-end crosstalk,
  • insertion loss,
  • rounded corner,
  • surface roughness,
  • transmission line
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-166541671-9
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Publication Date
01 Jan 2022
Citation Information
Yuandong Guo, DongHyun Kim, Yuanzhuo Liu, Xiaoning Ye, et al.. "Insertion Loss Reduction using Rounded Corners to Mitigate Surface Roughness Effect in Pcb Transmission Lines" 2022 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, APEMC 2022 (2022) p. 735 - 738
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/donghyun-bill-kim/88/