Trace Analyzer Benchmark of a Single Microstrip

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The parameters for the stripline are given below:

• w = 10 mil
• t = 2.8 mil
• h = 8 mil
• er = 5.23

Characteristic impedance values from measurement, and LINPAR, a method of moment (MOM) tool, are listed below:

* NOTE: Since Trace Analyzer applet only evaluate the lossless parameters, LINPAR is configured to report only the L/C matrices in order to have to fair comparison.

A specialized version of Trace Analyzer is shown below. User can verify the result by using menu Calculate::Impedance and use it as a template to solve similar problems.

References

[1] E. Recht and S. Shiran, "A Simple Model for Characteristic Impedance of Wide Microstrip Lines for Flexible PCB," Proceedings of IEEE EMC Symposium 2000, pp. 1010-1014

[2] Antonije R. Djordjevic, Miodrag B. Bazdar, Tapan K. Sarkar, and Roger F. Harrington, LINPAR manual, Artech House, 1999.