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Webinar: Measuring and Interpreting Impedance Data

Signal Integrity Webinar Series Title: Measuring and Interpreting Impedance Data Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute (Available On Demand)...

Three Stability Assessment Methods Every Engineer Should Know About

Many engineers are familiar with the Bode plot as an effective stability assessment method. However, some authors suggest and even teach...

Understanding Voltage Response Of An LC Circuit

For an undamped LC circuit excited by an AC voltage source through simple phaser equations, we come to see that the circuit becomes short...

Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems: Measuring Ripple (Part 7 of the ongoing series)

And by taking measurements across all three test domains, designers can trace power supply ripple-related problems back to root causes...

Five Things Every Engineer Should Know About PDN

Keep it flat Most PDN books tell you that the best performing PDN impedance looks flat over frequency. That is because noise signals are...

Oscilloscope Mistakes: #4 (Part 4 of 4)

The engineering community uses oscilloscopes more than any other piece of equipment, yet many of the published results are questionable...

New Injector Supports Testing of POLs

High Fidelity POL Testing with the J2112A The J2112A: Faster, Non-Invasive, and High Fidelity POL Step Load Testing Testing the step load...

Sharpen Rising and Falling Edges

Wherever you find a digital control signal, you find sharp rising and falling edges that need characterization. These edges occur on...

Deconstructing the Step Load Response Reveals a Wealth of Information

What can be learned from the Step Load response and why we should care? When analyzing power circuits, engineers routinely evaluate the...