may I add a little comment to the input impedance question?
> Dear SI-List members,
> What is the input impedance looking into IC's Power/Gnd pin?
> How to measure it?
> Eric Chien
> Assistant Researcher
> Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
> Taiwan, R.O.C.
> I think it should look like a small (I mean: very small)
> inductive value. If the pin is long enough, you should be
> able to observe it with a TDR.
> Dima Smolyansky
> TDA Systems, Inc.
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There is a publication in 1994 which exactly addresses this
Chi-Taou Tsai, Package Inductance Characterization at High
Frequencies, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and
Manufacturing Technology - Part B, Vol. 17, No. 2, PP 175-181,
The paper describes a measurement technique based on a vector
network analyser and gives examples as well (120 QFP, 296TAB tape,
224PGA). It turns out that the impedances of the packages
are described by inductive effects only for low frequencies
(about several nH). At higher frequencies capacitive effects
have to be taken into account as well. In the end even
resonances will show up (of course, these should be well beyond the
working range of frequencies).