Designing Power for Sensitive Circuits
- Picotest
- Apr 28, 2017
- 1 min read
Low power, high performance circuits are often plagued by power supply related issues. This common occurrence is frequently due to mythical (or misapplied) rules-of-thumb. These rules of thumb often lead us in the wrong direction, making things worse rather than better. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the most common mistakes engineers make and share some fundamental rules for designing clean power for sensitive circuits. Applying these rules will result in higher performance, lower cost designs with fewer design iterations.
What is a sensitive circuit?
Sensitive circuits are those that can easily be degraded by power supply noise. These circuits generally include oscillators, LNAs, transceivers, mixers and ADCs. I’ll probably receive emails from many readers adding to my list, and justifiably so, so take these as a few examples and not a comprehensive list.
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