On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:51 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
Found a nice post from TI https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/archive/2015/06/10/differential-pairs...
nice! dang, above 10ghz the thickness of the via starts to matter and needs to be drilled out, post-production. dang.
Since we're not trying to support HDMI post v1.4 we don't have signals above 10GHz on this interface at least. Thankfully none of the signal trace vias need to be drilled out since our signals always traverse the whole via.
*sigh* unfortunately symmetry is not completely achievable with the drastically-reduced amount of space available. the HDMI signals come out right at the bottom of the board.
Hopefully most of what we can't accomplish with symmetry we can remedy with creativity.