Signal Integrity — question 8 of 10
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You have a single driver feeding three receivers that tap off a shared trace at different points along its length -- a multi-drop bus, not a point-to-point link. The team is debating whether to put one termination resistor at the far end, use Thevenin termination, or add small series resistors at each stub. Walk me through how you'd reason about this and what you'd actually recommend.