Combining the knowledge of an engineer, the skill of a printed circuit board (PCB) designer and the power of an autorouter, Wilsonville, Ore.-based Mentor Graphics Corp. has taken the wraps off of a ...

A bus topology (Fig. 1) can be used when a fault-tolerant design isn’t required. The linear bus design is of limited use because it will fail if a cable break occurs anywhere in the network. It ...

Bus topology has 2 endpoints, each of which is connected to a special device called ‘terminator‘. It has a simple layout that is easy to install, maintain, and extend.

As the designer engages with the design, placement of certain components and interconnect are captured by the engineer using topology planning techniques. Yet, the design is not complete with other ...

Robert Metcalfe and his associates invented Ethernet in 1972 (see “Ethernet Prepositions”). The original Ethernet was a coax bus topology with a bit rate of 2.94 Mbits/s. During the next 10 ...