Abstract – The large amount of processed digital information and the ever-increasing data rate create a dire need for signal integrity (SI) engineers. By 2021, the monthly global Internet traffic is predicted to reach 278 exabytes, the same amount of data if every individual in the world has a 32 GB IPod touch. In contrast to the narrow band nature of microwave circuit design and analysis, an engineer designing for a high speed digital interface such as USB has to worry about bandwidth from DC all the way up to gigahertz range. Bridging the gap between microwave engineering and signal integrity, this presentation helps kick-start your SI career by demonstrating signal integrity analyses with a practical case study.

Mr. Tim Wang-Lee is an Application Engineer for Signal Integrity and Power Integrity applications in the EEsof EDA Group of Keysight Technologies. Wang Lee is currently a Ph.D candidate concentrating on signal integrity research at the University of Colorado. He received his BSEE degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and MSEE from University of Colorado at Boulder. In the past years, he has presented papers in DesignCon focusing on understanding high-speed channels and improving simulation and measurement correlation. Tim is an electromagnetism enthusiast and can recite Maxwell’s equations (in differential form) from memory.