Transmission Lines
Published in
Mar 1, 2022
We don’t often give some thought to signal transmission lines, but we use them daily.
Familiar examples are coax, coax cable, and Universal Serial Bus (USB). prefer it or not, high-speed clock and signal traces on printed-circuit boards are transmission lines.
While modeling transmission lines is generally a posh undertaking, it’s surprisingly simple to model a lossless, uniform line with resistive terminations by employing a discrete-time approach.
A discrete-time model easily computes both time and frequency responses, and is an honest learning tool.
