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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
Applicants:
Thomas Ludwig, Sindelfingen, DE;
Helmut Schettler, Dettenhausen, DE;
Thomas-michael Winkel, Schoenaich, DE;
Inventors:
Thomas Ludwig, Sindelfingen, DE;
Helmut Schettler, Dettenhausen, DE;
Thomas-Michael Winkel, Schoenaich, DE;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/04 (2006.01); G01R 27/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a measurement arrangement for determining the characteristic line parameters by measuring the S-parameters as a function of the frequency of transmission lines. A voltage mesh and a ground mesh in a metal layer are connected symmetrically to a reference ground (RG) in the layer at all ends.