SPRACU1A October 2020 – June 2021 AM2431 , AM2432 , AM2434 , AM6411 , AM6412 , AM6421 , AM6441 , AM6442
Because portions of the DDR signal traces are microstrip (top and bottom layers) while the majority of the trace segment length is stripline (internal layers), and because there is a wide variation in the proportion of track length routed as microstrip or stripline, the length/delay matching process should include a mechanism for compensating for the velocity delta between these two types of PCB interconnects. A compensation factor of 1.1 has been specified for this purpose by JEDEC. All microstrip segment lengths are to be divided by 1.1 before summation into the length matching equation. The resulting compensated length is termed the 'stripline equivalent length'. While some amount of residual velocity mismatch skew remains in the design, the process is a substantial improvement over simple length matching.