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...
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Picotest
Sep 15, 20161 min read
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,...
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Picotest
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Optimizing Arduino and the AD9851 DDS signal generator
Arduino has taken the product “maker” world by storm and one of the more popular Arduino modules is the Analog Devices AD9851 DDS...
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Picotest
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Power Integrity: It’s not just decoupling caps
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Picotest
Jan 29, 20161 min read
Evaluation of Gallium Nitride MOSFET for VRM Designs
View full article now View full slideshow now #efficiency #vrm #design #gate #gan #dropout #hemt #sifet #articles #presentations #psrr...
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Picotest
Jan 22, 20142 min read
Five Things Every Engineer Should Know About Bode Plots
In 1938 Hendrik Wade Bode, who worked at Bell Labs, published his asymptotic assessment of phase margin and gain margin, bearing his name...
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Picotest
Jan 6, 20141 min read
Non-Invasively Assess Your Multiple-Loop LDO’s Stability
Some low-dropout regulators (LDOs) use multiple feedback loops to improve output voltage transient response. In many of these cases, some...
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Picotest
Dec 10, 20131 min read
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...
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Picotest
May 15, 20131 min read
Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems: Why Stability Matters (Part 1 of the ongoing video series
In this 5-minute video presentation, Steve Sandler discusses how stability impacts circuit performance, offering examples that...
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Picotest
Jul 30, 20121 min read
Low Power And High Efficiency Can Degrade Performance Significantly
The general industry trend is to make electronic products more efficient and, in general, consume less energy. One of the major...
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Picotest
Jun 26, 20121 min read
Understanding the Data Sheet Key to Effective Circuit Design
While the graph of Fig. 1 seems straightforward, there are several issues that become apparent when one tries to make sense of what the...
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Picotest
May 31, 20121 min read
Making The Connection Key To Accurate Test Data
We often give even less thought to how we connect our circuits and systems to the test equipment that we use to power and measure the...
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Picotest
May 16, 20121 min read
Evaluate Feedback Stability When There’s No Test Point
Fortunately, a new technique permits non-invasive stability testing of such devices.1 Designers can evaluate stability by measuring (on...
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Picotest
Mar 24, 20121 min read
An Unconditionally Stable Linear Voltage Regulator
Is it possible to design an unconditionally stable linear voltage regulator? In fact, many believe that most regulator ICs are...
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Picotest
Aug 4, 20111 min read
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...
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Picotest
Aug 1, 20111 min read
Measuring Optocouplers with the J2130 DC Bias Injector and the OMICRON Lab Bode 100 VNA
In this measurement the J2130A provides a DC bias to the Optocoupler LED, which returns to ground through a termination resistor. The...
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Picotest
Jun 9, 20111 min read
Powering RF and Microwave Systems
RF/microwave design engineers faced with developing effective power circuits for a system require more complete data sheets, appropriate...
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Picotest
May 4, 20111 min read
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...
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Picotest
Mar 16, 20111 min read
Measuring MOSFET Gate Resistance
The OMICRON Lab Bode 100 Network Analyzer, used in conjunction with the Picotest J2130A DC Bias Injector, is a perfect combination for...
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Picotest
Dec 12, 20101 min read
Measuring LDOs requires more bandwidth than you think
Most electronic systems contain at least one voltage regulator, with many systems requiring several regulators, each providing a...
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