As every engineer learns at an early stage, clock edges must be obeyed. In the digital domain, synchronization through global and local clock trees, slew rate and rising/falling times all combine to ...

Hot swap controllers used in 48 V telecommunication applications generally offer a Power Good signal to inhibit the operation of the load circuit until the initial inrush current into the input filter ...

Leading-edge chip desiLeading-edge chip design was never easy, but it’s getting harder all the time. Rapid advances in communication systems are driving data rates higher. With the emergence of ...

Issues in GDDR6 design. In-design analysis for signal integrity and power integrity. Innovative workflow for GDDR6 design and analysis. Graphics processing units (GPUs) and graphics double-data-rate ...

Power and Signal Line Electromigration Design and Reliability Validation Challenges for the 28nm-era Reliability verification is an important aspect in the design and development of an integrated ...

How to quantify the power-supply noise sensitivity of signal-processing chain loads. How to calculate the maximum acceptable power-supply noise. Strategies to meet power-domain sensitivity with ...

Signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) are two distinct but related realms of analysis concerned with proper operation of digital circuits. In signal integrity, the main concern is making sure ...

Molex announced availability of its compact MMCX Power over Coax (PoC) solution, which features a patent-pending mating technique to ensure secure and stable connections while maintaining electrical ...

Recently, a reader wrote to me seeking a copy of a paper on measuring the transient peak-to-average power ratio of DTV signals. So perhaps the topic of DTV signal power, which is so different from ...