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Crosstalk Reduction Using Buffer Insertion..: Signal Integrity

Signal integrity refers to how well a signal can transmit correct responses in a circuit at the required voltage levels and times. Inserting buffers between parallel wires can help reduce crosstalk by decreasing coupling capacitance. While setup time checks are affected by clock frequency variations as they depend on the timing between clock edges, hold time checks are not impacted as they only consider the signal level at a single clock edge.

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Crosstalk Reduction Using Buffer Insertion..: Signal Integrity

Signal integrity refers to how well a signal can transmit correct responses in a circuit at the required voltage levels and times. Inserting buffers between parallel wires can help reduce crosstalk by decreasing coupling capacitance. While setup time checks are affected by clock frequency variations as they depend on the timing between clock edges, hold time checks are not impacted as they only consider the signal level at a single clock edge.

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SIGNAL INTEGRITY : Signal Integrity is how a system affects itself.

Signal Integrity is the ability of a signal to generate correct responses in a circuit. A signal with good signal integrity has digital levels at required voltage levels at required times.

crosstalk reduction using buffer insertion..


The concept is that crosstalk is caused by coupling capacitance of two wire running parallel for long distances. If the parallel run is broken by inserting buffer(s), which reduces coupling capacitance, then the crosstalk is reduced. iwpia50s is correct. All of you know that the victim is the weaker net then your aggressor. So if you insert the buffer in the victim net your victim net will become little stronger, then you know....

Suppose you have a register to register path with each register clocked by a clock of frequency 10 MHz.Consider a clock edge at time 0 at reg1 and a clock edge at time 0.1us at reg2.The setup check would be between these two edges.But if the frequency varies the time available would be different from 0.1us.But for the hold check which is done for the clock edge at time 0 at reg2,even if the frequency changes, the hold check would still be at time 0.So frequency of the clock has an effect only on the setup and not the hold

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