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Webinar: DC Biased Impedance Measurements
From OMICRON Lab: “The Impedance of real-life components is often non-linear, depending on the applied DC bias voltage or current. In...
Picotest
May 26, 20201 min read
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The Myth of Three Capacitor Values
By Eric Bogatin, Larry Smith, and Steve Sandler | March 3, 2020 “Many designs today include three different value decoupling capacitors,...
Picotest
Apr 8, 20201 min read
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Optimizing Power for Clocks and other Sensitive Applications
Click here to read the entire article. #noise #Crosstalk #powerintegrity #noisesensitivecircuit #signalanalyzers #decoupling #vrts3...
Picotest
Feb 6, 20191 min read
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Webinar: Copper Mountain VNA Impedance Measurement for Power Distribution Networks
The instrument of choice for these impedance measurements is a vector network analyzer and the most common and highest accuracy...
Picotest
Jan 11, 20191 min read
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Capacitor Coupling for Minimum Impedance
Click here to read the entire article. #powerdistributionnetwork #ESR #powerintegrity #decoupling #capacitors #impedancemeasurement...
Picotest
Dec 21, 20181 min read
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How to Design for Power Integrity Video Series
Click here to watch the series. #powerdistributionnetwork #vrm #design #ESR #flatimpedance #powerintegrity #presentations #decoupling...
Picotest
Jun 13, 20181 min read
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How to Design for Power Integrity YouTube Video Series
Click here to watch the series #powerdistributionnetwork #vrm #design #flatimpedance #inductor #noise #powerintegrity #capacitors...
Picotest
Jun 29, 20171 min read
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Extended-Range Shunt-Thru Measurement with Steve Sandler
#2portshunt #decoupling #capacitors #j2102a #bode100 #videos
Picotest
Jun 20, 20171 min read
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How to Design for Power Integrity: Measuring, Modeling, Simulating Capacitors and Inductors
The third video in the Picotest/Keysight How-To Design for Power Integrity series is now available. Power supply switching ripple and...
Picotest
Nov 8, 20161 min read
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Capacitors and Decoupling
Capacitors are too often taken for granted. When it comes to high-speed circuits, capacitors can behave like resistors or even inductors,...
Picotest
Sep 15, 20161 min read
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How to Design for Power Integrity: Selecting a VRM
This video explains why one should avoid Voltage mode VRMs and shunt compensation for the VRM Error Amplifier. The better performance of...
Picotest
May 9, 20161 min read
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How to Design for Power Integrity: Finding Power Delivery Noise Problems
This video provides an understanding of how the voltage regulator module (VRM) interacts with the printed circuit board planes and...
Picotest
May 9, 20161 min read
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Power Integrity: It’s not just decoupling caps
Read more here #vrm #design #flatimpedance #powerintegrity #articles #roguewaves #capacitors #picotest #pdn #regulator #targetimpedance
Picotest
Feb 12, 20161 min read
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Reducing Noise in Power Distribution Networks on Time and in Budget
View the full slideshow now #comb #vrm #plane #flatimpedance #noise #powerintegrity #presentations #vrts3 #capacitors #psrr #bode100...
Picotest
Jan 28, 20161 min read
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Flat Impedance in Voltage Regulator Modules
Today’s high speed systems require clean power under challenging conditions. Extremely fast current transients and high voltage stability...
Picotest
Nov 19, 20151 min read
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SPICE models need correlation to measurements
Many SPICE models are available online that were created by IC and semiconductor manufacturers. Unfortunately, availability doesn’t...
Picotest
Jun 4, 20141 min read
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PDN Basics – Paralleling Tantalum and Ceramic Capacitors Can Be Risky
Because of their high ESL compared to ceramic, tantalum capacitors are not the optimum choice for high frequency decoupling. Paralleling...
Picotest
Nov 26, 20131 min read
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PDN Issues Occur in the Simplest of Circuits
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...
Picotest
Nov 7, 20131 min read
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A Simple Method to Determine ESR Requirements for Stable Regulators
A single, simple measurement is described that allows the determination of the ESR required to achieve a desired phase margin, using a...
Picotest
Aug 4, 20111 min read
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An Accurate Method For Measuring Capacitor ESL
With ESL values typically in the range of 1 nH to 5 nH, measuring the ESL of chip capacitors is not a trivial task. At present, some...
Picotest
May 4, 20111 min read
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