Articles by Eric Bogatin

Lee Hill demo

Real Time FFT Makes EMI Debug So Much Easier.

Traditional swept-tuned EMI spectrum analyzers and step-tuned EMI receivers may produce misleading or entirely false measurement results when the signal under study is not steady state, but transient. See Eric Bogatin's review of a demo by Lee Hill on this subject.


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Elephant

What Exactly is Power Integrity?

Larry Smith and I address this question in the preface to our new book. We found this question to be a little like the story of the five blind people and the elephant. They each are asked, what is an elephant? Depending on what part they were facing, imagined the elephant as that feature: a wall, a rope, a tree trunk, etc.
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RF Module

Ten Tips for Best Board Design Practices for IoT Applications

This design guide focuses on small form factor and low power IoT products. Even though these sorts of products are not in the same performance class as server motherboards, not paying attention to signal and power integrity design principles at the beginning of the design cycle may require multiple board spins to get your IoT product working.


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