Have you been burned lately by power-rail noise due to peaking of high-Q bypass capacitors? Have you followed the discussion forums on various PDN design methodologies? One of the most heated debates in the SI community concerns the optimum and proper ESR value of bypass capacitors. It was shown and demonstrated that by raising the ESR of MLCCs and bulk capacitors, PDN performance can often be improved. In spite of this realization, the ESR of bypass capacitors kept steadily decreasing. This panel of OEM experts will review the controlled ESR bulk and ceramic capacitors becoming available.

Istvan Novak Senior Signal Integrity Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems

In addition to signal-integrity design of high-speed serial and parallel buses, Mr. Novak is engaged in the design and characterization of PDNs and packages for workgroup servers. He creates simulation models and develops measurement techniques for power distribution. Mr. Novak has more than 20 years of experience with high-speed digital, RF, and analog circuit and system design. He is a Fellow of the IEEE because of his contributions to the signal-integrity and RF measurement and simulation methodologies.

Bruce Archambeault Distinguished Engineer IBM

Dr. Archambeault is a member of the Board of Directors for the IEEE EMC Society and a past Board of Directors member for the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. He has served as a past IEEE/EMCS distinguished lecturer and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. In 1997, he joined IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is the lead EMC engineer, responsible for EMC tool development and use on a variety of products. He has written or co-written a number of papers in computational electromagnetics, mostly applied to real-world EMC applications.

Terry Morris Fellow Hewlett-Packard

Mr. Morris has more than 20 years of experience in signal integrity, power integrity, and interconnects as applied to computer system design. At Data General, Convex Computer, and HP, he has worked on system designs, including the world's first GaAs supercomputer, the HP Superdome server, and Blades. In addition to his work in HP's High Performance Systems Lab, he leads HP's Signal Integrity Forum. Mr. Morris holds 25 patents in signal integrity, power integrity, interconnects, and optics.

Jorge Rodriguez Intel

Alex Waizman Senior Hardware Engineer NVIDIA Corporation

Mr. Waizman focuses on chipset and graphics processors packaging. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Waizman was a senior principal engineer at Intel Israel, responsible for Intel Centrino, Core Duo and Core2 Duo processors platform implementation and design guide, validation customers training and motherboard layout reviews, package design and technology development, and die floor planning optimization.