Design and signal‐integrity analysis of a backplane for high‐speed digital systems

The design of a backplane in high-speed digital systems is presented, with an emphasis on systematic analysis of the signal integrity using full-wave electromagnetic methods when the system carries high-speed digital signals. The simulation and measurement results in both the frequency and time domains are presented for a high-speed digital-circuit demo system at the data rate of 500 M/bs, and are in good agreement. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 45: 194–199, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20768