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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Phil,</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I already had known these
measurements but I cannot find the layer stackup for these boards which is
essential for impedances of the bus lines (striplines). </span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Impedance controlled
multilayer boards require a defined layer stackup which specifies besides the
trace widths the thicknesses of copper and insulation layers within the stackup
and a definition for the material which influences the dielectric constant. As
a standard material I presume that FR4 was used. </span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Probably it is as it is?</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Phil Harman
[mailto:phil@pharman.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 13, 2008
12:25 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> g.loch@nt-electronics.de;
hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hpsdr] Atlas
Impedance Measurements</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi Gerd,</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There are some test results by Ray
Anderson WB6TBU in SVN that characterise the Atlas bus. Look at the</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>\trunk\Atlas\ATLAS_Docu_USLetterLowRes.pdf</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a href="mailto:g.loch@nt-electronics.de"
title="g.loch@nt-electronics.de">Gerd Loch</a> </span></font></p>

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href="mailto:hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org" title="hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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Atlas Impedance Measurements</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>which layer stackup was used for the
boards for which the impedance and TDR measurements were made?</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I could not find any specification.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I ask this question because I
found signal integrity issues on the clocklines. </span></font></p>

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