Its not sexy but, increasingly, its the law: If you want to sell your products into a growing number of geographic markets, you have no choice but to be a good power-line citizen. Fortunately, power-semiconductor manufacturers are easing the needed compliance.
Today's drive toward energy efficiency at every level makes current the fast-growing measurement. Designers can now choose from a bewildering variety of hardware to best implement techniques that have minimal impact on the host circuitry.
Electromagnetic crosstalk, among its many detrimental effects, degrades receiver sensitivity. The mitigation of crosstalk becomes increasingly challenging as data rates increase for higher throughput, as module sizes shrink for increased port density, and as supply rails lower for reduced power dissipation.
