Signal-integrity measurements on VME320 backplane

<P>Presentation made at the 4th Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments, INFN Rome, 21-25 September 1998.<P>Using high-speed buses in data-acquisition systems is very much widespread. The bus topology and performance is one of the key factor in the overallperformance of the whole system. The limitation of the speed which can be achieved on a backplane-like bus is determined by the signal-integritybehavior of the bus and the driver and receiver of the daughter cards. This paper deals with the evaluation of one of the latest VME-like backplanes.Measurement results are presented for the impedance profile, frequency-domain response, skew, eye-diagram and BER of the transactions.