Voltage fluctuations, especially due to a resonant effect of a power
distribution system, result in serious timing skews in a high-speed
digital system. Adding extra resistive loadings for coupling out the
noise into external terminations will reduce a quality factor of the
power distribution system, which will effectively minimize the noise
accumulation. The external coupled resistive terminators are preferably
formed on positions of a microstrip resonator where relatively high noise
fluctuations occur. Each of the external coupled resistive terminators
may be formed of a resistor, a transmission line with a resistor at one
end, a lossy transmission line with an open circuit at one end, or a
quarter-wavelength lossy transmission line. Simulation results indicate
that the maximum voltage fluctuations are suppressed from 750 mV to 150
mV at a resonant frequency and about 50% for an overall range of the
operating frequencies.