Distance & Continuing Education
Missouri University of Science and
Technology
300 W 12th Street
216 University Center
Rolla, MO 65409-1560
Phone: 573-341-6222
Fac: 573-341-4992 dce@mst.edu
High Speed Digital Design Video Course
About the course
High-Speed Digital Design consists of 40 fifty-minute video taped lectures
(total of 10 DVDs), addressing the subject matter listed in the course outline
at the right.
The objectives of the course are to:
Introduce fundamental signal integrity concepts.
Develop the basic skills necessary to design and analyze high-speed digital
products.
Encourage good printed circuit board and system design techniques.
Develop an ability to diagnose and solve signal integrity problems.
Review methods and tools available to help with high-speed designs.
High Speed Digital Design Course Outline
1. Introduction to
high-speed digital design
2. Time & frequency Domain
measurements
3. Capacitance
4. Inductance
5. Crosstalk
6. Crosstalk review, quiescent power dissipation
7. Power dissipation in CMOS devices
8. Power dissipation in ECL devices
9. Noise margin, propagation delay
10. Ground bounce, packaging
11. High-frequency measurements
12. Using voltage, current and near-field
probes
13. Review of lectures 1-12
14. Exam I problem discussion
15. Time-domain transmission lines
16. Pulse-bounce diagrams
17. Inductive and capacitive terminations
18. Lumped elements in the middle of transmission
lines
19. Frequency-domain transmission lines
20. Time-domain reflectometry
21. Source, end and mid-line terminations
22. Printed circuit board construction
23. Review of lectures 15-22
24. Exam II problem discussion
25. Differential signaling, sources of skew
26. Least impedance paths, field containment
27. Grounding
28. Crosstalk measurements
29. Working with differential signals
30. Printed circuit board decoupling I
31. Printed circuit board decoupling II
32. Power distribution, power islands
33. 4-layer board decoupling, via
mutual inductance
34. Examples and discussion
35. Review of lectures 25-34
36. Exam III problem discussion
37. Low-pass filter lab, lossy transmission
lines
38. Data transmission standards
39. The rest of what you need to know
40. Review for final exam