ESD Protection Design for Integrated Circuits in CMOS Technology
Proper ESD protection design is your first and last defense against IC failure in the world of CMOS technology.
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Determining the Impedance of a Circuit and How It Affects Your PCB
The impedance of a circuit can be determined by hand or with Cadence’s precision simulation and analysis tools.
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Matched Terminations Help Avoid Impedance Issues
Don’t overlook matched terminations when you’re considering noise, impedance, and other voltage concerns in your pcb design.
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EDA Tools for PCB Design: What You Should be Looking For
PCB design tools have changed and grown a lot over the years, but you still need to make an informed choice when selecting EDA tools to work with.
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Multi Circuit Board Design Rules to Speed Up Design Time
You can avoid a lot of design and manufacturing problems as well as saving time on your next PCB design by saving multi circuit board design rules for reuse.
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The Four Most Common Causes of Failure of Electronic Circuits
Failure of electronic circuits can occur from a number of factors. Learn about them and how to prevent failures in the future.
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Analog Signal Transmission, Processing, and Modulation
Analog signals can be tricky to navigate in your designs without strong simulation and analysis tools to model and predict anticipated interactions.
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Using the Expectation Maximization Algorithm in Circuit Analysis
As an important machine learning technique, you can apply expectation maximization to analyzing your circuits.
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Printed Circuit Board: An Introduction and the Basics of Printed Circuit Boards
There are a lot of steps involved in the design and manufacturing of a printed circuit board. Here we will describe these basic steps to outline the process.
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Reliability-Based Design Optimization in SPICE Circuit Analysis
Here’s how you can use reliability-based design optimization to improve your circuit designs and ensure they operate as intended.
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Monte Carlo Analysis and Simulation for Electronic Circuits
Monte Carlo analysis and simulation for electronics design is a function determining probabilities of risk associated with manufacturing processes.
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Analog Multipliers and RF Modulators: Introduction and Applications
Analog multipliers and RF modulators aren’t the only applications available, but are some of the common uses for both multipliers and modulators.
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Envelope Circuit Design and Layout Tips
If your next PCB contains an envelope circuit, then you’ll need to follow some important layout guidelines for your board.
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Layout Tips for Your DC DC Buck Converter Design
A good layout for a DC DC buck converter design on your printed circuit board is essential to its successful operation. Here are some layout tips that can help.
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Types of Diode and Determining the Operating Point of a Diode
To ensure your circuit design is operating at the Q-point for any of your types of diode, you need the advanced signal analysis capabilities provided by PSpice simulation.
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Working with MOSFET SPICE Models in Circuit Analyses
Here’s what you need to know about different MOSFET SPICE models in different circuit analyses.
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Hysteresis in Analog Circuits: Comparator and Operational Amplifier Circuits
Hysteresis in analog circuits is particularly useful in a number of applications. Here’s how you can incorporate hysteresis into your analog circuits.
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Harmonic Oscillator Analysis in the Frequency Domain
Here’s what you need to know about linear and nonlinear oscillator analysis in the frequency domain.
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Speed of Convergence for Numerical Simulation Algorithms
There is a tradeoff between accuracy and speed of convergence in any simulation. Here’s what you need to know about convergence in electromagnetic simulations.
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Using Sensitivity Analysis to Improve Your Circuit Designs
Do you know what will happen to your circuit’s output if one parameter slightly changes? Sensitivity analysis can tell you the answer.
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