Allegro PCB Editor Demo
The Cadence® Allegro® PCB Editor helps bring your innovative and bleeding-edge designs to life.
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Functional Partitioning in PCB Design
We’ll illustrate the importance of setting up functional partitioning in PCB design and give some recommendations on functional partition best practices.
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Managing Magnetic Coupling on a Printed Circuit Board
Magnetic coupling is a different animal. A moving electrical charge will generate a magnetic field as a byproduct. The magnetic fields can be quite powerful though their effect drops off rapidly.
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How to Use a Transmission Line Reflection Coefficient Correctly
There is more than one way to examine how the transmission line reflection coefficient affects your signals.
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How to Use a Frequency Transformation in Filter Design
A frequency transformation in filter design lets you generate high pass, bandpass, and bandstop filters from a low pass filter transfer function.
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Achieving PWM with a Microcontroller in Your PCB Design
Understand PWM, how to send signals from a microcontroller, and the EMI considerations when planning the duration for digital signals in your PCB design.
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How and Why to Convert Analog Signals to PWM Signals
Check out this article for how to convert analog signals to PWM signals, as well as some design tips for analog to PWM converters.
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Today's and Tomorrow's Terahertz Microcavity Resonators
Terahertz microcavity resonators are a critical part of on-chip microwave photonics. Here’s how these components will fit into the photonics landscape.
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Describing Harmonic Motion in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits
Harmonic motion is more complicated than sinusoidal oscillations. Here’s how complicated oscillations arise in linear and nonlinear circuits.
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Reaffirm Signal Integrity Using S-Parameter Simulation
A look into S-parameter simulation, and discussion on how these parameters can help maintain signal integrity in RF circuits.
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The Use of Hysteresis with Comparators and How It Affects Functionality
The use of hysteresis with comparators provides increased stability and functionality, which is essential for their proper function in various circuit types.
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Small Signal Model for a Diode in DC and AC Circuits
If you’re using a diode in an AC circuit, you need a small signal model for a diode to describe current and voltage.
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Colpitts Oscillator Circuits and Other Linear/Nonlinear Oscillator Functions
A Colpitts oscillator’s functionality permits its use as a VFO, such as in a superheterodyne receiver or even a spectrum analyzer, if utilizing a variable inductor.
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Solutions For Impossible PCB Designs
Learn how you can tackle high-speed and high-frequency PCB designs
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Managing Impedance in Your PDN
Your design data can be used in simulations to manage PDN impedance. Here’s how this works in PSpice from Cadence.
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Power Spectrum vs. Power Spectral Density: What Are You Measuring?
What’s the difference between power spectrum vs power spectral density? Here’s how these important concepts relate to your signals.
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Harmonic Termination in Amplifier Design
Analog signals can contain undesired harmonic components, but harmonic termination can be used to remove undesired frequency components.
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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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