摘要 |
The invention relates in general to a method for determining cable termination resistances in communication networks and a corresponding communication network, and is applicable especially to high-speed communication networks in automobiles, which uses dual-wire harnesses like FlexRay e.g. For this purpose a method for determining cable termination resistances in communication networks is proposed, where a termination resistance is assigned to at least a part of the cable ends of the network in accordance with the following steps determining for each cable end the cable length to any other cable end, assigning a weight value to each length where lengths with greater values are combined with higher weights than lengths with smaller values, for all cable ends: summing up the weights assigned to all lengths starting from a specific cable end and assigning this sum to the respective cable end as the weight of this cable end, determining the termination resistance of a specific cable end by multiplying the cable impedance Z with a constant of proportionality and the sum of the weights of all cable ends divided by the weight of the specific cable end.
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