When designing a system that uses drivers, receivers, and transceivers, proper cable termination is essential for highly reliable applications with reduced reflections in the transmission line. If termination is used, it can be placed at the end of the cable near the last receiver. Factors to consider when determining the type of termination usually are performance requirements of the application and the ever-present factor, cost. The different types of termination techniques discussed are unterminated lines, parallel termination, AC termination, and multipoint termination. For laboratory experiments, 100 feet of 100-Ω, 24-AWG, twisted-pair cable (Bertek) was used. A single driver and receiver, TI AM26LV31C and AM26LV32C, respectively, were tested at room temperature with a 3.3-V supply voltage. The first plot shows output waveforms from the driver at the start of the cable (A/B); the second plot shows input waveforms to the receiver at the far end of the cable (Y).