
5 DUT Board Performance Considerations Maintaining Signal Fidelity
118 System Reference, January 2001
Maintaining Signal Fidelity
Because the tester does not limit your choice of pin-to-
channel allocation, you can design the DUT board layout
so that you get the best possible signal fidelity at high
frequencies.
When you design a new DUT board for high-frequency test
applications (or have one designed for you), you have to
ensure that the board will transport the test signals to the
DUT and back without appreciable loss of signal quality.
50 Ohm Impedance Always specify and use a 50 Ohm impedance environ-
ment.
Crosstalk
Keep crosstalk down to a minimum by:
• avoiding routing long signal lines in parallel
• using maximum allowable spacing between signal lines
• minimizing the spacing between signal line and ground
• running a ground strip between two signal strip lines
• distributing signal lines through multiple board layers
• terminating strip lines with the characteristic imped-
ance
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