Simulated eye diagram displaying a DDR3 signal waveform
Signal integrity or SI is a set of measures of the quality of an electrical signal. In digital electronics, a stream of binary values is represented by a voltage (or current) waveform. However, digital signals are fundamentally analog in nature, and all signals are subject to effects such as noise, distortion, and loss. Over short distances and at low bit rates, a simple conductor can transmit this with sufficient fidelity. At high bit rates and over longer distances or through various mediums, various effects can degrade the electrical signal to the point where errors occur and the system or device fails. Signal integrity engineering is the task of analyzing and mitigating these effects. It is an important activity at all levels of electronics packaging and assembly, from internal connections of an integrated circuit (IC),[1] through the package, the printed circuit board (PCB), the backplane, and inter-system connections.[2] While there are some common themes at these various levels, there are also practical considerations, in particular the interconnect flight time versus the bit period, that cause substantial differences in the approach to signal integrity for on-chip connections versus chip-to-chip connections.
Some of the main issues of concern for signal integrity are ringing, crosstalk, ground bounce, distortion, signal loss, and power supply noise.
^Louis Kossuth Scheffer; Luciano Lavagno; Grant Martin (eds) (2006). Electronic design automation for integrated circuits handbook. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC/Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-8493-3096-3. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) A survey of the field of electronic design automation. Portions of IC section of this article were derived (with permission) from Vol II, Chapter 21, Noise Considerations in Digital ICs, by Vinod Kariat.
^Howard W. Johnson; Martin Graham (1993). High speed digital design a handbook of black magic. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-395724-1. A book for digital PCB designers, highlighting and explaining analog circuit principles relevant to high-speed digital design.
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