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FIGURE 6. Buffered Output
In the example in Figure 6the resistor RL is required to provide
a load for the crosspoint output buffer. Without RLexcessive
frequency response peaking is likely and settling times of
transient signals will be poor. As the value of RL is reduced
the bandwidth will also go down. The amplifier shown in the
example is an LMH6703 this amplifier offers high speed and
flat bandwidth. Another suitable amplifiers is the LMH6702.
The LMH6702 is a faster amplifier that can be used to gen-
erate high frequency peaking in order to equalize longer cable
lengths. If board space is at a premium the LMH6739 or the
LMH6734 are triple selectable gain buffers which require no
external resistors.
CROSSTALK
When designing a large system such as a video router
crosstalk can be a very serious problem. Extensive testing in
our lab has shown that most crosstalk is related to board lay-
out rather than occurring in the crosspoint switch. There are
many ways to reduce board related crosstalk. Using con-
trolled impedance lines is an important step. Using well de-
coupled power and ground planes will help as well. When
crosstalk does occur within the crosspoint switch itself it is
often due to signals coupling into the power supply pins. Using
appropriate supply bypassing will help to reduce this mode of
coupling. Another suggestion is to place as much grounded
copper as possible between input and output signal traces.
Care must be taken, though, not to influence the signal trace
impedances by placing shielding copper too closely. One oth-
er caveat to consider is that as shielding materials come
closer to the signal trace the trace needs to be smaller to keep
the impedance from falling too low. Using thin signal traces
will result in unacceptable losses due to trace resistance. This
effect becomes even more pronounced at higher frequencies
due to the skin effect. The skin effect reduces the effective
thickness of the trace as frequency increases. Resistive loss-
es make crosstalk worse because as the desired signal is
attenuated with higher frequencies crosstalk increases at
higher frequencies.
DIGITAL CONTROL
Block Diagram
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FIGURE 7.
The LMH6583 has internal control registers that store the
programming states of the crosspoint switch. The logic is two
staged to allow for maximum programming flexibility. The first
stage of the control logic is tied directly to the crosspoint
switching matrix. This logic consists of one register for each
output that stores the on/off state and the address of which
input to connect to. These registers are not directly accessible
by the user. The second level of logic is another bank of reg-
isters identical to the first, but set up as shift registers. These
registers are accessed by the user via the serial input bus. As
described further below, there are two modes for programing
the LMH6582, Serial Mode and Addressed Mode.
The LMH6583 is programmed via a serial input bus with the
support of 4 other digital control pins. The Serial bus consists
of a clock pin (CLK), a serial data in pin (DIN), and a serial
data out pin (DOUT). The serial bus is gated by a chip select
pin (CS). The chip select pin is active low. While the chip se-
lect pin is high all data on the serial input pin and clock pins
is ignored. When the chip select pin is brought low the internal
logic is set to begin receiving data by the first positive transi-
tion (0 to 1) of the clock signal. The chip select pin must be
brought low at least 5 ns before the first rising edge of the
clock signal. The first data bit is clocked in on the next nega-
tive transition (1 to 0) of the clock signal. All input data is read
from the bus on the negative edge of the clock signal. Once
the last valid data has been clocked in, the chip select pin
must go high then the clock signal must make at least one
more low to high transition. Otherwise invalid data will be
clocked into the chip. The data clocked into the chip is not
transferred to the crosspoint matrix until the CFG pin is pulsed
high. This is the case regardless of the state of the Mode pin.
The CFG pin is not dependent on the state of the Chip select
pin. If no new data is clocked into the chip subsequent pulses
on the CFG pin will have no effect on device operation.
The programming format of the incoming serial data is se-
lected by the MODE pin. When the mode pin is HIGH the
crosspoint can be programmed one output at a time by en-
tering a string of data that contains the address of the output
that is going to be changed (Addressed Mode). When the
mode pin is LOW the crosspoint is in Serial Mode. In this
mode the crosspoint accepts a 40 bit array of data that pro-
grams all of the outputs. In both modes the data fed into the
chip does not change the chip operation until the Configure
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