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ANSI Z535.1 – Safety Colors in Focus

In our "On Your Mark" columns, we often discuss the importance of American National...

Banana Skins – July 2023 (#429-432)

One car manufacturer found that the craze for CB radio caused more than a jamming of the airwaves.

Smith Chart and Input Impedance to Transmission Line, Part 3: Input Impedance to the Line

This article explains how to use a Smith Chart to determine the input impedance to transmission line at a given distance from the source or the load.

The Transistor: An Indispensable ESD Protection Device – Part 2

In this article we discuss the MOS transistor in the role of ESD protection for high-voltage applications and take a look into a possible future of ESD protection devices for high-performance computing applications.

Banana Skins – June 2023 (#424-428)

Spacecraft now and of the future are being controlled by EMC requirements of the past.
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Smith Chart and Input Impedance to Transmission Line

This is the second of the three articles devoted to the topic of a Smith Chart.

Updated Trends in Charge Device Model (CDM)

As long as integrated circuits migrate to new technologies and advances are made in packaging more integrated circuit dies into a single package, the CDM challenge is going to get harder.

Four Useful Tips for Using Affordable Benchtop Spectrum Analyzers

In this column, we discuss several important features of a spectrum analyzer not covered in previous articles that are worth your consideration.

Smith Chart and Input Impedance to Transmission Line, Part 1: Basic Concepts

This is the first of the three articles devoted to the Smith Chart and the calculations of the input impedance to a lossless transmission line.

Challenges of Designing System-level ESD Protection at the IC Level, Part 2

It is a common misconception that designing an IC for system-level ESD requirements simply requires an increase in the capability of the ESD cells, which are already present for safe handling ESD requirements, like Human Body Model (HBM).
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