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Rules of Thumb With Eric’s rules of thumb, of you can improve your signal integrity engineering expertise in 5 minutes or less!  Rules of thumb are designed to get you a “fairly good” answer NOW instead of a “great” answer when it may be too late to be useful. Because they are so simple to use, rules of thumb should be the first tool wielded by every engineer when tackling any problem.  While you never want to sign off on a design based on rules of thumb results, learning to skillfully and flexibly apply them can save you time and effort. They can also help you answer "what if" questions early in the design phase and keep you pointed in the right direction.

Item Name+   Download PDF      ROT-001 Bandwidth of Signals  This rule of thumb covers the bandwidth of digital signals as related to the rise time of the signal.read more.  Member Only Content: This material is available only to members. Membership is free.       ROT-002 Capacitance in Transmission Lines  This rule of thumb helps you estimate how much capacitance there is between the signal and a return conductor in ANY uniform tran...read more.  Member Only Content: This material is available only to members. Membership is free.       ROT-003 Loop Inductance in Transmission Lines  In this rule of thumb, we show how to estimate the loop inductance in a uniform transmission line. This applies to the loop induc...read more.  Member Only Content: This material is available only to members. Membership is free.   Displaying 1 to 3 (of 3 items) Result Pages:  1