so... Anyone wanna give me some ideas for some type of phenomena of high speed digital design to investigate? Something I can design on some pcb and do an experiment with after. The only things I can think of are related to mutual inductance/capacitance.

 

"High Speed" is taking on a whole new meaning these days, stuff is starting to be built that involves switches on the molecular level, and REAL high speed transmission is going away from electrons and EM waves on wire to photons travelling through fiberoptics.

But a lot of the fiberoptic stuff is getting affordable, that might be something worth playing with.

So- are you looking for a senior project or something?

 

*lost*

 

naw not senior project just final project. hmm the fiberoptics stuff sounds intersting but i have no exposure to it. i'll see if i cant google anything thanks for the suggestion

 

Sounds like you need something more doable at the undergraduate level.

I'm an EE, but I'm more ASIC than PCB. One thing I've always wondered is if there was a quicker way to optimize pin out assignments as it relates to PCB design, or if it even really matters. For example, if I'm prototyping on an FPGA in a BGA package, do I gain much by choosing a more "optimal" pin out?

For the ASIC side, we just assume a worst case scenario and try to register everything going in an out; chalking up a whole clock period to go towards "chip to chip" traversal time.

Sorry, I dunno much about PCB. I'm a front end RTL dude aspiring to do SOC chip architecture.