Digital transition switching is the primary cause of noise in mixed-signal devices. Signal noise and immunity to power, ground, and substrate noise all benefit from using differential circuits. Design ...

Signal integrity issues such as crosstalk delay and noise are significant challenges for system-on-chip designs at 130 nanometers and below. At such process nodes, preventative measures to mitigate SI ...

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 ...

Several years ago, analog and mixed signal (AMS) content hit a wall. Its contribution to first-time chip failure doubled, and there is no evidence that anything has improved dramatically since then.

Preserving signal quality in measurement applications using off-the-shelf data acquisition equipment–for signal bandwidths up to 1 MHz and sampling rates up to a few million per second–can be ...