Circuit Design Blog
Best practices and Trends to Ensure a Reliable Circuit Design
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What is Discontinuous Grounding in an Electrical System?
High speed PCBs should never contain discontinuous grounding, but lower frequency power electronics could use this strategy. Here’s how to simulate grounding.
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Forward Bias vs. Reverse Bias and their Effects on Diode Functionality
Forward and reverse biasing gives a circuit designer optimal control over a diode's functionality.
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Peak Envelope Power and Your RF Signal Chain Simulations
You can optimize your signal chain to receive and transmit maximum peak envelope power with the right circuit simulator.
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Frontend Electronics Manufacturing: Processes, Challenges, and Improvements
rontend electronics manufacturing works toward the wafer fabrication of a semiconductor. This process has various workflows and necessities associated with the creation of semiconductors.
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Achieving PCI-e Compliance: Getting it Right the First Time
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What is a Pure(ly) Resistive Circuit and What are its Characteristics?
A purely resistive circuit is a circuit that has inductance so small that at its typical frequency, its reactance is insignificant.
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Solder Joint Reliability Simulation and Temperature Rise
With a solder joint reliability simulation, you can determine whether your board will operate within thermal cycling limits.
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Probabilistic Design for Reliability: It's all About the Components
Verify your component choices with probabilistic design for reliability. You can use this technique to determine chances of failure in your next PCB.
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Using a Multiphysics Heat Finite Element Solver
If thermal management is a problem in your PCB, you can map heat flow and steady state temperature in your board with a heat finite element solver.
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Passive Pi Filter Design and Simulation
Your next power supply design or impedance matching network might be a pi filter. Here’s how these work and how to simulate them.
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Applications of Cathodic Current Measurements in Corrosion Protection
If you’re designing corrosion protection systems, you’ll need to gather cathodic current measurements in controlled experiments.
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Linear Sweep Voltammetry for Batteries and Regulator Design
Linear sweep voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry measurements are critical for examining battery operating ranges and designing charging systems.
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Inductive Circuits and Using Kirchhoff’s Current Law
Current in electronics is an eternal process of consideration and reconsideration. Inductive currents can be particularly difficult to match or determine necessities for.
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Working with Thin Film Resistor Components in Your Next PCB
Using a thin-film resistor provides lower profile and more reliable operation up to high frequency.
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Do Your Circuits Need a Schottky Diode?
Schottky diode components are less well-known than silicon diodes, but they provide some important advantages in rectifying circuits.
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Circuit Design Tips for a 4x4 Matrix Keypad
When creating and installing a 4x4 matrix keypad in your device, you’ll want to keep these reminders in mind.
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SiC SPICE Model and Analysis for New MOSFETs
If you’re building power amplifiers or RF amplifiers, you need SiC SPICE model and analysis tools in your PCB design software.
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What is a Linear Bilateral Network and What are its Characteristics?
A linear bilateral network exhibits a linear relationship, and yet simultaneously, the magnitude of the current is separate from the polarity of the voltage.
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Bistable Multivibrator Design and Simulation
Remember the 555 timer? Newer bistable multivibrator circuits can take pulse triggering applications to the next level.
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Shockley Diode Characteristics, Thyristors, and SCRs
Here are the important Shockley diode characteristics and how these devices form the basis of thyristors.
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Balanced Modulators in Analog Designs
You’ll need to know about amplitude modulation and signal integrity when working with balanced modulator circuits in your designs.
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