Rise time is defined as the time for a waveform to transition from 10% steady-state amplitude to 90%.
There’s a handy… Read the rest
All too often, PCB traces are laid out for convenience of footprint with little or no consideration of the PCB traces as circuit… Read the rest
Once concept I find ignored quite a bit – including myself among the guilty – are the assumptions for “small-signal”… Read the rest
A controversial topic; a complex topic; a topic many would like to avoid – anyway, it’s just ground.
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An active circuit generates heat … sometimes damaging heat.
We all know this … The power dissipated in an element… Read the rest
An overview of this classic network along with a means of linearizing the response of a 1-element variable.
Is coax a waveguide ? … or just a piece of shielded wire?
Do I really need 50 or 75 Ω resistors at the end of my signals?… Read the rest