Digital Signal Transmission on Buses: Why Analog Signals Aren't Preferred

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Buses are primarily used for carrying digital signals due to their resilience against noise and crosstalk, which can corrupt analog signals. Digital signals can be recovered even when noise is present, making them more suitable for bus systems. In contrast, analog signals are more susceptible to degradation from crosstalk, necessitating isolation through coaxial cables or shielding methods. Digital buses typically consist of parallel traces over a ground plane, where proximity between traces increases crosstalk. While measures such as spacing traces, reducing distance to the ground plane, and adding guard traces can mitigate crosstalk, it remains a significant issue for analog signals, reinforcing the preference for digital transmission in bus architectures.
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Are busses mostly used to carry digital signals?

If yes, then why so? Why aren't buses a popular means of carrying an analog signals?
 
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Crosstalk between the multiple lines would corrupt the analog signals enough to generally cause problems. With digital signals, you can still recover the content, even with some noise added in from crosstalk.

For analog signals, you will generally keep them isolated from each other with coax or some other shielding method.
 
How exatly do buses corrupt analog signals? Don't they have some kind of shielding?
 
A typical bus of digital signals will be parallel traces run over a ground plane (like the traces are on the outer layer of a multi-layer PC board, with the adjacent inner PCB layer being the ground plane). The closer the traces are to each other, the more crosstalk you get. You can reduce the crosstalk by spreading out the bus traces, by decreasing the distance to the inner ground plane layer, and by running ground "guard" traces between each of the bus lines. But you will still get plenty of crosstalk, even with those measures.
 
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