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Assignment 1 - Crosstalk

This document discusses the concept of crosstalk and its implications for signal transmission. Crosstalk occurs when a signal on one conductor couples unintentionally onto a neighboring conductor, interfering with signals on the adjacent pair. As communication speeds increase into the gigahertz range, rise and fall times of pulses become shorter, causing portions of the voltage and current waveforms to appear on adjacent lines and create potential interference problems. Crosstalk increases noise levels and decreases signal-to-noise ratio, reducing channel bandwidth and impacting signal integrity. It can cause logic errors, problems, and system failures.

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Assignment 1 - Crosstalk

This document discusses the concept of crosstalk and its implications for signal transmission. Crosstalk occurs when a signal on one conductor couples unintentionally onto a neighboring conductor, interfering with signals on the adjacent pair. As communication speeds increase into the gigahertz range, rise and fall times of pulses become shorter, causing portions of the voltage and current waveforms to appear on adjacent lines and create potential interference problems. Crosstalk increases noise levels and decreases signal-to-noise ratio, reducing channel bandwidth and impacting signal integrity. It can cause logic errors, problems, and system failures.

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WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AUG - 2019
ASSIGNMENT 1

NAME: CHRISTINE NYATHIRA KANGA

ADMISSION NUMBER: 106422

ASSIGNMENT TOPIC:

DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF CROSSTALK AND ITS IMPLICATION TO SIGNAL


TRANSMISSION
Crosstalk is the unintended coupling of a sign on a couple of conductors onto a
neighboring pair of transmitters, subsequently causing signal interference in the
electronic devices interconnected by the adjacent pair conductors, usually
occurring in twisted pair copper wires. PSPICE subcircuit model is used to
determine crosstalk.
Technically, with need of faster communication through communication lines, the
clock and data speeds have moved rapidly into the low-gigahertz (GHz) range
which subsequently means there is an increase in clock speed.
As the frequencies of the clocks increase, the period T decreases and hence the rise
and fall times of the pulses. This rise and fall causes portions of the voltage and
current waveforms on one line to appear inadvertently at the ends of the adjacent
line, thereby creating potential interference problems in the electronic devices that
the adjacent line interconnects, this is crosstalk. (Paul, C. R. ,2010 pg. 3)
Crosstalk noise interference increases the noise level in the channel and decreases
the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) in turn reducing the operational bandwidth of the
channel.
Crosstalk affects another nearby signal adjacent to it, however, in some cases it can
affect signals further away, thereby reducing signal integrity.
Cross talk can cause different effects in signals such as logic errors, signal integrity
problems and usually adverse system failures.

References
1. Paul, C. R. (2010). Transmission lines in digital and analog electronic
systems: Signal integrity and crosstalk.
2. Johnson H, Graham M (1993) High-Speed Digital System Design.

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