Misterminate

Sir, in our business, one wire which is misterminated can mean the difference between success and failure .

When electrically long lines are misterminated on both ends, the resulting multiple reflections cause severe pulse distortion and significantly lengthen the effective rise and fall times of any pulses carried on the line.

They are often surprised to learn that such trivial errors as omitting a punctuation mark, misnaming a parameter, incorrectly setting a condition, or misterminating a loop could escape testing and cause serious problems in actual use.

The reflections and ringback indicate that a 60Ω resistor misterminates this bus.