“Data Mining the Rich Mother Lode of S-Parameters” by Eric Bogatin, PhD, President, Bogatin Enterprises, USA.

Date:  October 19, 2011 (Wednesday)
Time:  7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Venue:  PSDC, 1 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia

Admission is free.  Refreshments will be served at 7:00 pm.

Network and interact with like-minded engineers and researchers before the seminar begins.

Abstract

Everything you every wanted to know about the properties of a channel or how it might perform in a system is contained in its S-Parameters. This data has become a universal format for the description of channel performance, not just in high speed serial links, but in all aspects of signal integrity and interconnect design. Yet the complexities inherent in this description often hide the valuable information contained in it and require considerable effort to interpret.
This brief presentation will introduce you to the important essential principles of S-parameter and how to interpret their response at a glance. We will look at 4-port S- parameters in the frequency and time domain and as single-ended and in their differential form. General interpretations for the four commonly observed patterns will be offered and a check list of questions to ask about the quality and consistency of the S-parameter data will be provided.
At the end of this presentation, S-parameters will be an important tool in your toolbox to tame interconnects and engineer them for your applications.

Speaker

Dr Eric Bogatin received his BS degree in physics from MIT, and MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Arizona in Tucson . He has held senior engineering and management positions at Bell Labs, Raychem, Sun Microsystems, Ansoft, and Interconnect Devices. Eric has written five books on signal integrity and interconnect design and over 300 papers. His sixth book is a science fiction novel, Shadow Engineer, available on Amazon.com. Eric is currently a signal integrity evangelist with Bogatin Enterprises, which specializes in signal integrity training and education. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE EMC society and lectures worldwide on signal integrity topics.