Hi Ken,

Thanks.  I am familiar with FR408.  However my thinking was that it is 
only marginally superior to FR4.  I will definitely look it up. 
Simulations show marginal performance with FR4, but I will check again on 
the actual design.  If we can make it work with FR4 then it will make my 
task much simpler.


Regards
Ravinder Ajmani
HGST, a Western Digital company
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Ravinder,
I am a fan of the Isola FR408 for hi-speed designs.

http://www.isola-group.com/products/fr408/

This is what we used at Adaptec for all our hi-speed boards.

That being said, I recently designed a 10GBit PCB that my customer uses
standard 170C tg FR-4 and it works fine.
Not my call on the substrate but it does work...
Ken

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Hi All,

We discussed with our quick-turn fab the use of low-loss PCB materials for
high-speed applications.  As per the discussions,the only such material 
that
is Halogen-Free and has UL Approval seems to be Rogers Theta material.  If
there are other materials available in US and more importantly at the
high-volume fabs off-shore then please share the information.  I will 
really
appreciate it.

Thanks.


Regards
Ravinder Ajmani
HGST, a Western Digital company
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