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In exploring options to demonstrate ringing from reflections in transmission lines, Professor Eric Bogatin gets a greater understanding of debouncing circuits. Read on to see where his investigations led him.

Ken Willis provides some background on the IBIS AMI standard and looks ahead to what’s next.

Rohde & Schwarz has always been known for high end, very accurate instruments in the high frequency but did you know that R&S has a portfolio of value class instruments with more than 100 products and 300 accessories? From their recent release, here is a summary of the new value instrument additions they highlighted.

Eric Bogatin explores just how much better the sine wave is from a more expensive function generator compared to the lower cost units. He asks the question: Just how much bang do you get for your buck? Read on to see how he does it.

Ransom Stephens describes himself as physicist, author and technologist. Add life coach to that list, which he aptly played delivering one of the two keynotes at the Electronic Design Innovation Conference (EDI CON) last week in Santa Clara. Titled “Innovation, Incorporation, and Integrity,” Stephens riffed on why we work and not losing sight of our values and calling.

The third Electronic Design Innovation Conference (EDICON), was held Oct 17-18, 2018 in Santa Clara. The attendees were treated to two days of technical talks, tutorials and tradeshow with the overlapping topics of RF, SI, PI and EMI. This is a unique combination, allowing cross fertilization between these otherwise separate fields.

We usually associate problems with the power distribution network (PDN) as from excess VRM noise, or from transient current draw from the core or I/O drivers. But that’s not the only source of PDN noise. Some failures can arise from dull, boring, mundane problems at DC.

Eric Bogatin reviews a presentation by Terence Regan, and shares his thoughts on the topic of high-performance interconnect design and fabrication.