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From: arthur@warwick.UUCP (John Vaudin)
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Subject: HELP! Nasty Analogue Things
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Date: 23 Oct 89 00:51:31 GMT
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Reply-To: arthur@flame.warwick.ac.uk (John Vaudin)
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I apologise for posting this here but I could not find anywhere more
appropriate.

For several years now I have been involved in building smallish micro-processor
based systems. Until recently my knowledge of electronics was adaquate for
the job, but as clock rates climb to to 30MHz and beyond I find myself a
little out of my depth. Basically things keep not working and it seems to
be due to all sorts of analogue effects creeping in that I don't really 
understand.

I would be very grateful for any references to books that give practical
advice for building high speed digital electronics. Most of the books
I can find are very  theoretical, what I need is some real concrete 
advice on things like power distribution, noise/interference, transmission
line effects etc..

Thanks in advance.

John Vaudin     arthur@uk.ac.warwick.cs