Signal Integrity Tips

After a gestation of several years, the Input/Output Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) Version 2.1 was formally ratified as ANSI/EIA-656 on December 13, 1995: IBIS turns thirteen tomorrow. The IBIS behavioral modeling template emerged as a compromise between the need of chip vendors to protect the intellectual property in their SPICE netlists, and the need of chip [...]

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James Clerk Maxwell at University of Cambridge with one of his colour wheels James Clerk Maxwell was born June 13th, 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He synthesized previously unrelated observations, experiments, and equations of electricity, magnetism, and optics into a consistent theory and set of equations—Maxwell’s equations—demonstrating that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations [...]

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