Author Archive
Optimize PI
OptimizePI is from Sigrity who also do related power integrity tools like PowerSI and PowerDC. OptimizePI is aimed at estimating and optimising the power delivery network on PCBs. It helps understand the impedance of the Power delivery network and how efficient it is. It also estimates the effect of bypass and decoupling capacitors in a [...]
EMC for product designers
“EMC for product Designers” by Tim Williams (ISBN 0-7506-8170-5) is one of the best reference books available covering everything that is related to EMC. The book is currently in its fourth edition and is still popular as its previous editions. What is in it? The book is organised into three main categories - EMC Standards and [...]
Polar Instruments Si9000
Polar Instruments Si9000 is one of the most important tools for anyone working on high speed digital designs. The software is aimed at estimating trace impedance and can help simulate loss less trace impedance as well as analyse how trace impedance would change based on the frequency of interest. There are a number of built in PCB layer stack-up [...]
‘The battery power sharing’ app
A very simple and straight forward idea i thought about recently. With the computing power and energy consumption of the mobile devices skyrocketing these days, there is a need to have a charger handy all the time to keep the device going. And although physical world is not as easy as the virtual world to manipulate with apps, i believe using [...]
Future of the mobile phone
Though i hate devices that make us more and more stupid, I truly love technology. Especially, when it tries to address wider issues like improving quality of life. A mobile phone in particular is so well placed in the technological map that it appears to me to be capable of doing a lot more than what it does now. Whenever I say this, I get funny [...]
Car pooling for the future
Trying to cheer myself by thinking about some tasty bacon, i started my car on a rainy morning. My drive from home to my office isn't too far - just 3 miles. As i drove a few yards getting on to the first roundabout, i saw a car coming up from my right. As a law abiding person, i let him drive past the roundabout before i did. Although my [...]
Free EMC Journal weblink
A free for all EMC journal that provides up to date information on all EMC related issues, industry news and equipments. It is very easy to register and registration takes no more than a few seconds. Once registered, you can view all the archived materials. Issues that dates back to 2004 can be downloaded as pdfs and issues that were published [...]
CST 3D simulation suite
CST (Computer Simulation Technology) is a German company involved in the creation of 3D Electromagnetic simulation software. They have a number of products covering various domains like Telecommunication, Automotive, Defense and Medical Electronics. Although most products are for Antenna and RF simulation, they have a number of tools for [...]
Signal Integrity Weblink
Dr. Eric Bogatin is known for his SI knowledge and wonderful trainings he provides. His book Signal Integrity Simplified (Read the book review here - Signal Integrity Simplified Book Review) was a great success and he has upgraded the book to cover signal and power integrity. He conducts regular training sessions and also offers a lot of support [...]
Near Field Sources
Near field sources are a much sort after piece of test equipment while debugging EMC issues. These are generally well designed antenna's capable of generating defined fields with defined power rating. Some near field sources have ability to generate various field strengths as well using simple settings to configure the required field [...]