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signal-integrity
- Apr 29, 2026 Rise Time, Electrical Length, and When a Trace Stops Being a Wire The criterion that separates a lumped connection from a transmission line, how dielectric constant sets propagation delay, and why slow edges on long traces still misbehave. hardware engineering
- Dec 9, 2025 Sizing Pull-Up Resistors Against Bus Capacitance and Rise Time The two inequalities that bound a pull-up value: the rise time the mode allows and the sink current a device guarantees, and why the window closes as the bus gets faster. embedded systems
- Mar 30, 2023 Return Current Paths and Why Loop Area Sets Trace Inductance Why the return current of a high-speed signal crowds beneath its trace, what a broken reference plane does to that path, and how loop area translates into ground bounce. hardware engineering
- Sep 9, 2022 Termination Topologies and the Reflection They Absorb Series, parallel, Thevenin, and active termination compared by what they do to the incident wave, what they cost in DC current, and where each one fails on a multi-drop bus. hardware engineering