Steve Sandler Answers Your Voltage Regulator Questions (Power Electronics’ Q&A Series) Power Electronics received a question about how to...

Steve Sandler Answers Your PSRR Questions (Power Electronics’ Q&A Series Follow Up) Earlier this month Power Electronics received a...

The vast majority of design issues are directly or indirectly attributable to control loop stability. The most common offenders: Linear...

What could be simpler than inductors? Pick one from a catalog based on saturation, inductance, DCR, etc, and you’re done. If you need...

One of the more common design techniques for power distribution networks (PDN) is the determination of the peak impedance that will...

Assuming the AC signals in the measurement are very small, the power ratings of the ports limit the absolute maximum DC voltage that can...

Clock-jitter performance has become a top priority among clock, analog-to-digital controller (ADC), and power-supply manufacturers. Why?...

Evaluating the stability of a Point-Of-Load (“POL”) regulator can be performed using both traditional Bode plot and output impedance...

Making ripple measurements has traditionally been using an oscilloscope. For a number of technical reasons, an oscilloscope, in general,...

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

Oscilloscopes often are used to measure power supply, linear regulator, and reference noise. Since an oscilloscope has a sensitivity in...

Using a simple, but precise test set up, measurements are taken on a 1-m? 5% metal-foil current-sense resistor mounted to a small PCB....

The general industry trend is to make electronic products more efficient and, in general, consume less energy. One of the major...

While the graph of Fig. 1 seems straightforward, there are several issues that become apparent when one tries to make sense of what the...

The EM-6992 Probe Kit includes three magnetic (H) field and two electric (E) field passive, near-field probes and an extension handle...

Maintaining clean, regulated voltage requires more than a high-quality power supply. The power distribution network (PDN)—which, together...

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...

Most engineers do not have convenient access to the equipment necessary for electromagnetic compliance (EMC) or electromagnetic...

It may come as a surprise to some that a control loop’s Bode plot does not always depict the loop stability and that the output impedance...

Fortunately, a new technique permits non-invasive stability testing of such devices.1 Designers can evaluate stability by measuring (on...