Abstract
A separable electromagnetic coupler was designed, simulated, fabricated, and tested as part of a prototype eight-module multidrop memory bus. The coupler consists of broadside coupled traces, one on a rigid motherboard and the other on a flex circuit soldered to a daughter card. The zig-zag geometry of the traces reduces variation in the coupling coefficient due to horizontal and vertical misalignment of the coupler halves. Simulation and testing indicates that a target capacitive coupling coefficient of 0.34, which has been selected to balance signal-transmission-level requirements against motherboard impedance discontinuity effects, can be achieved with little variation over +/-12-mil alignment tolerance. In addition, custom interface circuitry was designed in conjunction with the coupler to enable 1.6-Gb/s data rate per differential pair. The prototype system was tested for an extended period executing read and write memory transactions for an estimated bit error rate less than 2.0e-17.
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