On July 17, 2007 at 21:03, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
bcf,
Excellent points, all.
By the way, someone else said skew is the name for the
twist. I thought it was the name for the change in the
signal from one end of the cable to the other, which is
of course directly related to the twist, but I thought
it was a signal characteristic, not a twisting characteristic.
Comments?
In electrical engineering, when talking of skew, we are always talking about the difference between a clock transition, and the ideal clock transition. Wikipedia says it well at:
[Link: en.wikipedia.org]So... I would agree that skew is a signal characteristic.
But, I thought it could be covered by general useage of the work skew. Looking up skew in an online dictionary I get:
[Link: thefreedictionary.com]None of the definitions really talks about a difference in twist. The closest is talking about "An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction." I don't really think that seems correct for how skew was being used.
I don't think skew properly relates to the change in the twist rate in cabling.
