TRANSIENT FIELD COUPLING AND CROSSTALK IN LOSSY LINES WITH ARBITRARY LOADS

In this paper, we extend the transient scattering analysis of a lossy multiconductor transmission line to the evaluation of the interference produced by a field illuminating the line. The external interference is described by suitable voltage wave sources that are readily compute d in the time domain and do not affect the structure of the transient scattering equations. The proposed formulation fully exploits the adva ntages of the transient analysis based on the line matched scattering parameters, dealing effectively with low-loss lines and helping the un derstanding of the interference mechanism through the physical interpr etation of the results. The simplicity and efficiency of our approach is evidenced by means of a numerical example of the external interfere nces on a realistic nonlinearly loaded highly mismatched 3-conductor i nterconnect.