Characterizing a design’s ability to reject/attenuate supply noise is critical, because such noise can appear as various errors Designs ranging from transceiver chips for smartphones to radar ...

Electromagnetic noise is created by natural phenomena and inject many problems into electronic devices like radio transmitters and switching power supplies. Managing noise in power systems is an ...

Separating the power/ground connections used for the analog sections from those used for the digital areas will improve the isolation of the power supplies. Adding external/internal filtering should ...

Last week, I posted part 1 of a 3 part series on how to test your power supply design: Testing power supply: measuring efficiency. I covered the fundamentals about testing, including the necessary ...

Noise is all around us, and while acoustic noise is easy to spot using our ears, electronic noise is far harder to quantify even with the right instruments. A spectrum analyzer is the most convenient ...

Although the problem has been around since the dawn of radio communications and broadcasting, power-line noise issues are on the rise. The proliferation of electrical, electronic, mobile and wireless ...

The convergence of advance process technology, increasing levels of integration, and higher operating frequencies pose considerable challenge to IP designers whose circuits are required to function in ...

On paper, electricity behaves in easy-to-understand, predictable ways. That’s mostly because the wires on the page have zero resistance and the switching times are actually zero, whereas in real life ...

Noise has always been important to communications experts, but it’s quickly becoming an issue that every semiconductor designer has to contend with. Some chips already have been compromised. Noise can ...

Can clean power lower noise and improve imaging? Clarus Concerto MKII uses advanced filtering and protection to help serious ...