By Steve Sandler | January 28, 2020 One method of designing stable control loops is to create an accurate broadband simulation model and...

In this application note, we will show you the basic principles for making this stability measurement and how to use these instruments to...

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PROVEN TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING HIGH-FIDELITY MEASUREMENTS Power Integrity: Measuring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting Power Related...

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Ceramic capacitors play an oversized role in circuit performance as a major contributor to voltage regulator control loop stability and...

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Kenneth Wyatt Wyatt Technical Services, LLC ken@emc-seminars.comSteve Sandler Picotest steve@picotest.com Modern devices are...

Many new linear devices, including voltage references, voltage regulators and opamps have internal feedback loops, prohibiting...

Figure 1. Op amps are often used as unity gain signal buffers, which are not as simple to use as it may appear. The unity-gain op amp...

What do clock jitter, EMI, control loop stability, SPICE modeling, rogue waves and the ripeness of fruit have in common?  Do you need to...

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

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

The mathematics behind the non-invasive measurement was incorporated into the OMICRON Lab Bode 100 VNA software, sold by Picotest.com,...

In 1938 Hendrik Wade Bode, who worked at Bell Labs, published his asymptotic assessment of phase margin and gain margin, bearing his name...

Some low-dropout regulators (LDOs) use multiple feedback loops to improve output voltage transient response. In many of these cases, some...

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

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

The non-invasive stability assessment is a method that uses an output impedance measurement to accurately determine stability without...

Although not quite as accurate as the two-port VNA impedance measurement, the current injection technique has advantages including wide...