Sigrity Tech Tip: How IC Package Designers Find and Fix Electrical Problems
Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how integrated circuit package designers can find and fix electrical problems.
Ground noise refers to electrical fluctuations that may cause PCB performance problems. Learning how to reduce ground noise is an important part of PCB design.
This article will explore the differences between single-ended and differential signals and show you how to use each to your advantage in your designs.
The Cadence® Allegro® PCB Editor helps bring your innovative and bleeding-edge designs to life.
We’ll illustrate the importance of setting up functional partitioning in PCB design and give some recommendations on functional partition best practices.
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.
There is more than one way to examine how the transmission line reflection coefficient affects your signals.
A frequency transformation in filter design lets you generate high pass, bandpass, and bandstop filters from a low pass filter transfer function.
Understand PWM, how to send signals from a microcontroller, and the EMI considerations when planning the duration for digital signals in your PCB design.
Check out this article for how to convert analog signals to PWM signals, as well as some design tips for analog to PWM converters.
Terahertz microcavity resonators are a critical part of on-chip microwave photonics. Here’s how these components will fit into the photonics landscape.
Harmonic motion is more complicated than sinusoidal oscillations. Here’s how complicated oscillations arise in linear and nonlinear circuits.
A look into S-parameter simulation, and discussion on how these parameters can help maintain signal integrity in RF circuits.
The use of hysteresis with comparators provides increased stability and functionality, which is essential for their proper function in various circuit types.
If you’re using a diode in an AC circuit, you need a small signal model for a diode to describe current and voltage.
1:12Easily detect and resolve any timing issues such as delay and phase in real-time with the help of color-coded overlays on your canvas.
1:14High-speed designs are vulnerable to problems such as reflection and ringing, so it’s important to simulate your designs and nip any issues in the bud.
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.
Learn how you can tackle high-speed and high-frequency PCB designs
Your design data can be used in simulations to manage PDN impedance. Here’s how this works in PSpice from Cadence.
What’s the difference between power spectrum vs power spectral density? Here’s how these important concepts relate to your signals.
