High Speed and RF PCB Routing Best Practices
Understanding the various techniques needed for high speed and RF PCB routing requirements is the key to designing successful high speed printed circuit boards.
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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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4-Layer PCB Blind Via: 3D Printing vs. Traditional Manufacturing
To properly manage 4-layer PCB blind vias, you’ll need to know what manufacturing and production you’ll be able to count on and how to manage a stackup.
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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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De-embedding S parameters for Simulations and Measurements
De-embedding S parameters can be a major help in circuit design and signal integrity measurements in cascaded networks.
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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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What is a Squarer Circuit?
What is a squarer circuit? This type of analog signal processing circuit is remarkably simple and can be implemented in a variety of systems.
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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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Identifying Noise Sources to Reduce the Noise Floor in Your PCB
If noise is a problem in your device, you’ll need to measure or calculate the noise floor to determine minimum measurable signal levels in your board.
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Even and Odd Mode Impedance in Transmission Lines
If you’re next PCB will include transmission lines, then you’ll need to consider the even and odd mode impedance for accurate termination.
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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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Advanced Circuit Routing Techniques for Innovative PCB Designs
The key to successfully creating printed circuit board designs for new and emerging technologies is to leverage advanced circuit routing techniques.
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Fr4 PCB Traces: Fr4 Material Properties and Board Specifications
For an understanding of Fr4 PCBs, you’ll want to consider Fr4 PCB properties and relationships like materials, thickness, and trace management.
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Learn Ethernet PCB Routing to Optimize Circuit Routing Practices
Ethernet PCB routing demands, like other PCB routing guidelines, an understanding of trace widths and impedance matching.
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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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PCB Layout for CMOS Sensors
CMOS sensors for imaging might seem like complicated beasts, but some simple layout rules can help ensure signal integrity and clear images.
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RF Harmonic Balance Analysis for Nonlinear Circuits
How will your nonlinear circuit respond to a real analog driver? RF harmonic balance analysis will tell you the answer.
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