1. What is a PCB transmission line?
1.1 Transmission line examples
1.2 Example of a coaxial cable
1.3 When is an interconnection to be treated as a transmission line?
2. Signal speed and propagation delay in a transmission line
2.1 Signal speed
2.2 Propagation delay
3. Critical length, controlled impedance and rise/fall time in transmission lines
3.1 Critical length
3.2 Shortline
3.3 Estimate the rise/fall time from data transfer rate (DTR) or clock frequency
3.4 3 dB bandwidth
4. Analyzing a PCB transmission line
4.1 The characteristic impedance of a uniform transmission line
4.2 Lossless uniform transmission line
4.3 Estimation of L and C if Z_C and t_pd are known
5. Summary
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