Did you know Picotest has published a variety of training aids for engineers looking to learn power supply and power integrity testing...

Signal Integrity Journal Webinar Series Title: How Oscilloscopes Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years Available on demand Length: 1 hour, 1...

How long does it take to turn on a light if the switch, battery, and light are on the Earth, but the cable connecting them goes to the...

Those that know me, know that I like things that, on a scale of one to ten, go to eleven.  For the youngsters out there, see Spinal Tap,...

Oscilloscope users can also calibrate their passive oscilloscope probes, though the process is much less sophisticated and for lack of a...

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Arduino has taken the product “maker” world by storm and one of the more popular Arduino modules is the Analog Devices AD9851 DDS...

Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETS are poised to replace silicon power devices in voltage regulators and DC-DC power supplies. Their switching...

October 31, 2014 In this podcast Steve Sandler of Picotest talks to Alix Paultre of Power Systems Design on the issues of power test,...

Having said all of this, the measurement of a PCB plane using a VNA may not be as straightforward as you might expect. One simple trick...

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

He presents examples of various waveform anomalies and discusses techniques and tips for observing them as well as pitfalls to avoid....

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

The setup in Figure 2 illustrates the impact of poor quality connectors.  In this image, the TDR is deskewed with no cables attached to...

With those measurement requirements as background, Sandler examines how switching frequency and duty cycle affect power supply stability...

A single tiny logic gate The first case we’ll look at is a Fairchild NC7SZ04 ultra-high-speed inverter gate. This logic gate is a single...

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

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

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

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