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本帖最后由 clawhammer 于 2009-3-23 11:52 编辑
Various networking technologies specify that stations must be separatedby some minimum distance. Occasionally a customer is surprised aboutthe lack of a minimum length requirement for their CAT 5 cable thatconnects one Industrial Ethernet device to another.
Networkcable minimum length specifications arise because of an impedancemismatch between elements in the signal path. When electrical energy istransmitted through a cable, some of it is not absorbed by thereceiving station and is instead "reflected" back to the source. Thisreflected energy disturbs the purity of the signal -- and if the effectis of sufficient magnitude, the signal can be degraded to the extentthat its information is corrupted or even useless. If source anddestination transceiver impedances match the impedance of the cableitself, there is no reflected energy and signal energy is deliveredcompletely.
Reflected signal is always an issue in a bustopology because only the end devices have transceiver impedance valuesthat match the impedance of the cable. Mid-bus device transceivers musthave higher impedance values to avoid "loading" the cable (preventingproper signal delivery to devices further along the bus). Thus, amid-bus device transceiver presents an impedance mismatch to the cableand inevitably creates some degree of reflected energy. To keep thereflected energy to acceptable levels, a bus protocol will specify aminimum length of cable that separates two bus devices.
IndustrialEthernet uses a star topology in which devices exist only at each endof a cable. With this topology, both transceiver impedances match thecable impedance and no appreciable signal reflection occurs. This lackof signal reflection is true whether the devices are separated by 100 mor 100 mm. Therefore, there is no need to specify a minimum cablelength.
这里头说总线型才要注意最短长度,星形topology就不用管了
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