Logic Analysers

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 3, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
>>>> the propagation delay as the signal gets to each pin (remember a
>>>> foot is about a nanosecond.  [...])
>> 
>> Not really.  A foot is about a light-nanosecond, yes, but
>> high-frequency signals in copper travel by skin effect, moving
>> significantly more slowly - somewhere around .6c, I think it is.
> 
> It's not really the skin effect that matters here. It's the dielectric
> medium that surrounds the conductors that effectively slows the
> fields down.

Yes.  Consider open wire transmission line, which has a velocity factor around 98%.  Or air dielectric coax, similarly high value.  The smaller numbers. like 66%, are found in traditional solid-dielectric (not foam) coax cable.

	paul