General Course Overview

Electrical Engineering 475 at the University of Missouri-Rolla is a graduate level course that introduces signal integrity concepts and techniques to students who will be designing and working with high-speed electronic systems when they graduate. This is a highly design-oriented course. Students participate in several laboratory projects that allow them to apply the material covered in the classroom. Topics covered by the course include:

• Parasitic Inductance, Capacitance and Resistance in Circuits
• Time Domain Circuit Analysis
• High-Speed, Time Domain Measurements
• Crosstalk in Cables and Printed Circuit Boards
• Properties of High-Speed Logic Families
• Differential Signaling
• Power Dissipation in Devices and Circuits
• Time Domain Transmission Line Analysis
• High-Frequency Measurements
• Proper Grounding Strategies
• Printed Circuit Board Decoupling
• Printed Circuit Board Layout
• New Hardware and Software Technologies

Course Outline

Textbooks

Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity - Simplified, Prentice Hall, 2004

Johnson and Graham, High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice Hall, 1993.