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Title: High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic by Howard W., Ph.D. Johnson, Martin, Ph.D. Graham ISBN: 0-13-395724-1 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 08 April, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitely recommended
Comment: It is a good book, it provides a practical approach to high speed digital design and yet it presents the theory in a useful and concise manner to support it. It is a must for Electrical Engineers and PCB designers, it is one of those books that pays-off quickly.
Rating: 3
Summary: Overrated...
Comment: Johnson's High Speed Digital Design (1993) is widely cited as the definitive book on signal integrity for digital design. I've had it on my bookshelf now for about 4 years, but to be honest: I regret buying it.
The subject overview is definitely useful; however, as some have pointed out, the theoretical coverage isn't very good. Johnson presents a lot of equations, but without giving readers an intuitive understanding of what's really going on.
Also, IMO, Johnson isn't a good writer. He lacks depth and the ability to explain things clearly. To be honest, to learn signal integrity, there isn't really a good book out there.
Rating: 2
Summary: Useful book if you need a cook book, however ........
Comment: This book is useful if you want to have a long series of equations available in one place to jog your memory. But if you want to learn something useful and practical- and real-world - then perhaps you would be better off doing a web search for application notes, tutorial papers, and articles, particularly from semiconductor manufacturers, and vendors of high-performance test equipment such as Agilent, Tektronix, and others.
To take one example (page 134,) Johnson purports to describe problems associated with a wire-wrapped prototype processor board containing TTL devices operating at high edge rates ( 2 ns.) According to Johnson, the design engineers failed to realize that the circuits would ring excessively, making the board unusable. To "prove" this he posits a model consisting of a 30 ohm TTL driver, with a 2 ns rise time, a 4" length of wire with 89 nH of self inductance, and a 15pf load - a series LRC circuit. Yes, this circuit will ring wildly, but the model is totally incorrect. The TTL input is not considered, which has a relatively low input impedance in the low state since it is current operated. This circuit -effectively a parallel LRC - does not ring nearly as much, as any experienced engineer knows. As a reality check, remember that wire wrap was successfully used for years by thousand of engineers. To listen to Johnson, though, this technology is almost unusable. Wire wrap circuits do ring, but under his example, the real amount of overshoot/undershoot is well within the limits of TTL. Further, no real circuit produces textbook looking traces, so the role of experience is to learn what worst-case design means, and what is acceptable for good manufacturing yield. Lesson: real experience teaches you how to produce correct, functional models. An incorrect model will cause you grief.
Much could have been done here, to be useful, by way of analysis and of recommendation. The wire should have been modeled as part of a transmission line, not as a lumped element, which any high speed digital design engineer would know, and the idea of terminating a transmission line should have been introduced. This is standard fare. Even with the series LRC, instead of deriving the formula for critical damping, he instead says: "This approximation (reduce Q to .5) is derived from the solution to a second order linear differential equation describing an RLC low pass filter. First find the point at which the derivative of the solution passes through zero (a maximum point) and then evaluate the solution at that point."
Got that? Take the derivative of a solution you want to find? Any book on circuits will reduce this to the solution of a quadratic equation. Obfuscating something that's really elementary does not help produce genuine insight. But this is what Johnson does throughout the book.
Isn't it simpler to say that if you have fast rise time signals, treat most connections as transmission lines, and add termination resistors? As for a series RLC, use the formula for critical damping: R = 1/2 (sqrt(L/C))
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Title: High Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic by Howard W. Johnson ISBN: 013084408X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
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Title: High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices by Stephen H. Hall, Garrett W. Hall, James A. McCall ISBN: 0471360902 Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Pub. Date: 25 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: Signal Integrity - Simplified by Eric Bogatin ISBN: 0130669466 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design by Douglas Brooks ISBN: 013141884X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility by Clayton R. Paul ISBN: 0471549274 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $120.00 |
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