Patent ID: 7002428
Filing Date: 2006-02-21
Classification: H04B,H05K

Abstract:
1. A method of modifying a digital signal passing along a signal trace from an input to an output of the trace to compensate for dielectric signal losses, the method comprising: evaluating the dielectric losses expected to be incurred in a digital signal which traverses the signal trace from the input to the output; and passively distorting the digital signal at least at one location along the trace in accordance with the evaluated dielectric losses to produce a digital signal at the output of the trace which is an amplitude reduced substantial replica of the digital signal at the input of the trace, wherein the act of passively distorting a signal at the at least one location along the trace comprises the act of electrically interconnecting the first and second sections of the signal trace with a resistive shunt and capacitively coupling a first section of the trace to a second section of the trace at the at least one location.