Join Teledyne LeCroy and Professor Eric Bogatin for this series of 30-minute webinars that describe how to design, build, test, measure and debug your assembled printed circuit board.
Part 4: Understanding the Function Generator and Using it Properly
Date: May 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric provides a brief intro to using a function generator and understanding its output impedance by measuring its Thevenin voltage and its Thevenin resistance. These two figures of merit are compared as settings of the function generator are changed.
Part 5: Using the Oscilloscope to Measure Loop-to-loop Crosstalk
Date: June 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric describes how to measure the loop-to-loop crosstalk between two loops to understand the principles of mutual inductance and what PCB design features will reduce this common source of noise.
Part 6: Using a Slammer Circuit and Reducing Power Rail Switching Noise with Decoupling Capacitors
Date: July 11
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric describes how to build a simple slammer circuit that will draw a fast transient current from the power rail to simulate a rapid load and release, and how to minimize the transient switching noise on the power rail using decoupling capacitors.
Part 7: Getting the Lead Out – Expert Soldering Tips
Date: August 8
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric provides practical guidance about how to create good solder joints by satisfying the three important conditions for temperature, cleanliness, and solder flux.
Part 8: Understanding On-die Rail Voltages by Measuring Quiet High and Low Signals
Date: September 12
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric describes a simple hex inverter circuit and demonstrates how to probe a quiet HIGH or LOW signal in the circuit to “sniff” the power rail voltage (HIGH) or the ground voltage (LOW) on the die.
Part 9: Measuring Crosstalk Between Signal Return Loops
Date: October 10
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how two different interconnect approaches (continuous ground plane and adjacent return trace) will affect the amount of crosstalk between an aggressor and victim signal-return path pair.
Part 10: Measuring the Impact of Crosstalk in Ribbon Cables With Different Ground Topologies
Date: November 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how to measure the ground bounce in a ribbon cable carrying digital signals and how the choice of ground pins in the connector dramatically affects the cross talk.
Part 11: Measure Trace Resistance with a Digital Multimeter (DMM)
Date: December 12
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how to use a DMM on a simple two-layer PCB to make both 2-wire and 4-wire resistance measurements and then comparing as measured values to estimates.
Presented by: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder