Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits: An Introduction for Signal Integrity Engineers

by Dennis Miller

Personal computer data rates have already climbed into the multi-Gigahertz frequency range that requires microwave design techniques for interconnect circuitry. Have your design skills kept pace? Most digital designers were trained in an era when you could use idealized models to simplify circuitry design. The very high speeds demanded for today's computers negate the benefits and applicability of those idealizations, thereby threatening a generation of designers with obsolesce. Microwave design uses a new vocabulary; both the words and the concepts are often unfamiliar to digital designers. This book provides sorely needed information that is both appropriate to the 21st century PC industry and explained in terms digital designers understand. Written for the experienced engineer who is responsible for signal integrity, Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits provides you with the skills to cope with high-speed technologies, such as PCI Express. This introduction to the properties, mathematics, and methods helps you understand the concepts behind the buzzwords and bootstrap yourself into the world of microwave frequency circuit design.

Hardcover

Published August 1, 2004

About the author

Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator and sports commentator, and television/radio personality. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One.

In recent years, Miller has become known for his conservative political opinions, emphasizing a hawkish stance on U.S. military action and campaigning for Republican presidential candidates. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Miller Time," and on the network's Hannity & Colmes in a segment called "Real Free Speech."