Line termination incorporating compensation for device and package parasitics

摘要

A distributed terminator for terminating a transmission line linking a plurality of integrated circuits. The terminator comprises a plurality of resistors and a capacitor that is usually an ESD structure. The values of the resistors are such that the reflection co-efficient of the combined termination is lower across the bandwidth of the signal being transmitted than a reflection coefficient with a termination using resistors in the same topology where the effective value of the resistors is equal to the line impedance.