Transmission line losses—driven by skin effect and dielectric properties—play a critical role in degrading high-speed signal integrity and eye performance.
Transmission line loss directly affects eye diagram quality, with around −12 dB at Nyquist marking the limit before signal integrity rapidly degrades without equalization.
Gordon is Director of Product Management for protocol solutions. He has 25 years of experience in PCI/PCI-X/PCIe® technologies, is a PCI-SIG® Chairperson’s Award winner, and contributes test specification and methodologies for PCIe, NVMe® and CXL®.
Understanding PCIe’s layered architecture reveals why capturing synchronized physical- and protocol-layer behavior is essential for effective link debugging.
