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As rated by reader views, here are the Top 5, Most Read Articles on SIJ of all time. Thank you for your continued readership, as we look forward to bringing you many more great technical features in 2022 and beyond!

This extreme measurement seems more impossible than difficult.  The traditional stability assessment method for voltage regulators is the Bode plot.  Access to the control loop is required and a small signal is injected into the control loop, usually via a resistor, placed at the top of the voltage sense divider. Without access to this voltage divider, there isn’t a place to inject a signal into the control loop, and therefore the Bode plot is seemingly impossible…

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced that it is entering the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) market with the latest line of very low-cost, very low-power devices.

Now that I am teaching full time and have a number of undergraduate and graduate students doing weekly project reviews, I listen to more presentations than I give. I find myself giving the same feedback over and over again. So, I thought I would share my eight most common comments and tips to engineers giving presentations.

In this Extreme Measurement Example, see how measurements were used to resolve the shield resistance issue, where the authors redesigned the PCB to clear the DUT contact, but also identified alternate solutions in the event they could not wait for a new PCB.

Poorly designed interconnects can contribute to near field emissions, which is sometimes an indication of EMI failures, read on to see how to avoid failing an FCC test.

This first post in a new blog series, Extreme Measurements, introduces how an extreme measurement is defined. Find out how your extreme measurement story can end up on SIJ!

This article presents a quick and easy simulation model for filter performance analysis. The simulation model that the author built matches the test results quite well and it can serve as a useful and powerful tool for electronics design engineers.

“Over the years I’ve come to realize that, particularly in signal integrity, half-wave resonances are often the cause of ugly S-parameters. You can argue that any type of resonance would cause problems, and you would be right. However, half-wave resonances are easily formed in topologies.” This article summarizes observations from Gustavo Blando on the formation and mitigation of half-wave resonances, and includes an in-depth study on the topic in PDF format from the author.

SIJ editorial advisory board member Yuriy Shlepnev offers a comparison of three ways to visualize the same s-parameter data, identifying how to get the most information from a plot.