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13 years ago

CYCLON IV GX - ALTGX Won't recieve any valid data

Hello I'm new in the forum, seems like very nice one me and my partner working on a final project for the university engineering degree. We have designed and manufactured two printed circu...
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13 years ago

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I was thinking we short the the pads and cut the traces near the the old termination resistor and place the caps there, might that help?

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Yes, if you can create a nice transmission-line like environment for the coupling capacitors, then it should work at higher frequency.

Cutting the differential traces, scraping off the solder-mask, and soldering 0102 or 0204 or 0402 capacitors in-line with the old traces would result in the least impact. Try not to short the differential signals together though :)

Cheers,

Dave