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Hands-On Power Integrity Workshop

Presented by Steve Sandler, award-winning author, engineer and innovator in the field of Power Integrity

Course Overview


Steve Sandler, an internationally recognized power expert, developed this in-depth, hands-on workshop to provide you with the fundamentals of Power Integrity. You’ll learn why it is important and how to design for it, measure it and troubleshoot it. This workshop teaches high-fidelity measurement, design, and simulation techniques. The combination of lecture and hands-on exercises allows attendees to explore the presented topics in real-time while being mentored by an expert in the field. The hands-on approach allows you to gain confidence in your ability to apply these skills on your own, at your workplace. You will learn to measure, optimize and troubleshoot most common Power Integrity related issues.

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Workshop Schedule

Time Early Registration Price Registration
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TBD $1,500 Click here to register

What You Will Learn

  • Why clean power matters and how to obtain it
  • How to set the power supply noise budget
  • What frequency you should be measuring to
  • How to measure each portion of the PDN (VRM, decoupling, planes, loads)
  • How to interpret an impedance plot and use it to optimize performance
  • Which specific measurements are critical for success
  • How to make impedance, stability, PSRR, step load, and ripple measurements
  • What test equipment is necessary to complete the above measurements successfully

Benefits

  • Improve your first-pass design quality, thereby reducing board iterations
  • Improve the performance of high performance digital and RF circuitry
  • Improve your Power Integrity simulation models
  • Gain a better understanding of why Power Integrity is important
  • Get the latest tips and techniques for flat impedance design

Hands-On Measurements

  • Components
    • Calibration
    • 1-Port, 2-Port, 2-Port Extended
    • Resistors, Capacitors (Ceramic & Tantalum), Inductors
    • Impedance Adapters
  • Impedance
    • Probe Selection
    • Voltage Reference
    • Opamps
    • Voltage Regulator/LDO/POL
  • Stability and PSRR
    • Bode Plot
    • Non-Invasive Stability Margin (NISM) via Output Impedance
    • PSRR Measurement
  • Time Domain
    • Impedance Matching
    • Oscilloscope Noise Floor
    • Ripple
    • Step Load
  • PDN and Flat Impedance Measurement
  • Demonstration Examples: Troubleshooting Power Integrity Issues
    • Clock Jitter/Spectrum Analysis
    • Noise Density
    • EMI and Troubleshooting with Near Field Probes

    Additional measurements will be demonstrated (without a hands-on component)

Oscilloscopes, VNAs, EMI and PDN probes, and demonstration boards will be provided for the hands-on portion of the class. VRTS3 Boards and Flat Impedance Boards will also be made available for class usage.

Target Audience: Engineers and technicians currently involved with design, characterizing, optimizing or troubleshooting power systems, and high speed digital, RF or microwave systems.

Class Materials
  • Text Book – “Power Integrity – Measuring, Optimizing and Troubleshooting Power Systems” (334 pages, $99 Value)
  • Class Notes and Slides
  • Hands-On Lab Exercises

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