How Channel Operating Margin (COM) Came to be and Why It Endures

How Channel Operating Margin (COM) Came to be and Why It Endures
by Admin on 07-30-2025 at 10:00 am

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According to a recent whitepaper by Samtec, Channel Operating Margin (COM) didn’t start as an algorithm; it started as a truce. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, interconnect designers and SerDes architects were speaking past each other. The former optimized insertion loss, return loss, and crosstalk against frequency-domain… Read More