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...

We can equate the stability to an equivalent phase margin by assuming the magnitude of the gain vector to be 1 and solving for the Q. In...

High Fidelity POL Testing with the J2112A The J2112A: Faster, Non-Invasive, and High Fidelity POL Step Load Testing Testing the step load...

How do you use the Picotest injectors and the Agilent analyzer to measure output impedance and/or non-invasive step loading? For the...

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...

Summary Among the most frequently asked questions regarding non-invasive stability measurement are “How do I determine the bandwidth,...

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...

The network analyzer, sometimes referred to as a Frequency Response Analyzer (FRA) is a common piece of equipment in most of our labs...

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...

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2 Port Shunt Thru Impedance Measurement With The Bode 100 Below are a few diagrams on how to do a 2-port impedance measurement and have...

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...