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Samtec
gEEk spEEk series 3 Tips to Reduce Cable-Braid Loop Error in Low-Impedance PDN Measurements April18, 2024 |
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DesignCon
2024, Santa Clara, CA, January 30 -
February 1, 2024 Impact of Finite Interconnect Impedance Including Spatial and Domain Comparison of PDN Characterization Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (pdf) | Slides (pdf) |
DesignCon
2024, Santa Clara, CA, January 30 -
February 1, 2024 Realistic Use Cases For Edge, Angled and Vertical Launch Connectors up to 100 GHz |
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Manuscript (request by email) | Slides (request by email) |
DesignCon
2024, Santa Clara, CA, January 30 -
February 1, 2024 Mitigating Crosstalk Through the Placement of Power-Ground Capacitors for DDR5 Memory Best Paper Award Finalist |
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Manuscript (request by email) | Slides (request by email) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series Pros and Cons of Thin Laminates in Power Distribution December 16, 2023 |
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Recording | Slides (pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series SerDes CM Noise: How Much is Too Much? May 18, 2023 |
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Recording | Slides (pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series How to Measure Low PDN Impedance March16, 2023 |
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Recording | Slides (pdf) |
DesignCon
2023, Santa Clara, CA, January 31 -
February 2, 2023 The Future of Power Integrity |
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Slides (2.1M, pdf) | |
DesignCon
2023, Santa Clara, CA, January 31 -
February 2, 2023 3D Connection Artifacts in PDN Measurements Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (2.2M, pdf) | Slides (1.7M, pdf) |
DesignCon 2022, Santa
Clara, CA, April 5 - 7, 2022
Long-Haul Inter-Domain Power Noise
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Manuscript (1.7M, pdf) | Slides (1.9M, pdf) |
DesignCon 2022, Santa Clara, CA,
April 5 - 7, 2022
VNA Calibration Essentials for Practicing Engineers Best Paper Award Finalist |
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Manuscript (1.7M, pdf) | Slides (1.9M, pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series Pros & Cons of Thin Laminates in Power Distribution December 16, 2021 |
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Recording | Slides (960K, pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series PDN: Loss May Be Your Friend, But Inductance Is Your Enemy November 18, 2021 |
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Recording | Slides (955K, pdf) |
DesignCon 2021, San Jose, CA,
August 16 - 18, 2021
A Case Study in the Development of a 112Gbps-PAM4 Silicon & Connector Test Platform Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (1.9M, pdf) | Slides (3M, pdf) |
DesignCon 2021, San Jose, CA,
August 16 - 18, 2021
Impact of Power Plane Termination on System Noise |
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Manuscript (1200K, pdf) | Slides (1900K, pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series How to Read the ESR Curve of Capacitors August 19, 2021 |
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Recording |
Slides (880K, pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series S & Z Parameters for PDN January 21, 2021 |
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Recording |
Slides (820K, pdf) |
Mighty Guides
e-book 7 Experts on New Approaches for Power Distribution Network Design December 28, 2020 |
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Samtec
gEEk spEEk series Using Ferrites and Inductors in Power Distribution Networks (PDN) December 3, 2020 |
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Recording | Slides (959K, pdf) |
IEEE Workshop on Signal
Propagation on Interconnects 2020 (SPI)
Optimized Power Delivery Performance Using Plane Terminations |
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IEEE Xplore link |
or send me an email at
istvan.novak@ieee.org |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series Do You Know How Much Capacitance Do You Really Get? July 16, 2020 |
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Recording | Slides (1.2M, pdf) |
Samtec
gEEk spEEk series The Perils of Right-Angle Turns at DC May 14, 2020 |
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Recording |
Slides (835K, pdf) |
May 13, 2020
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Recording | Slides (2.8M, pdf) |
DesignCon 2020, Santa
Clara, CA, January 28 - 30, 2020
Current Distribution, Resistance, and
Inductance in Power Connectors
Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (2.1M, pdf) |
Slides (2.7M, pdf) |
For a recording of
the presentation, visit https://www.designcon.com/en/resources/webinars.html |
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DesignCon 2019, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29 - 31, 2019
Etch Factor Impact on SI and PI
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Manuscript (2.3M, pdf) |
Slide show with embedded video (16M,
ppsx) |
video 1 (6.6M, animated gif) |
video 2 (9.7M, animated gif) |
DesignCon
2019, Santa Clara, CA, January 29 - 31,
2019 Case Studies Isolating Types of Power-Integrity Effects on Signal-Integrity, and Means of Mitigation |
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Manuscript (2M, pdf file) | Slides (3M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2019, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29 - 31, 2019
How the Braid Impedance of Instrumentation Cables Impact PI and SI Measurements Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (2M, pdf file) | Slides (3M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2019,
Santa Clara, CA, January 29 - 31, 2019 Effect of Plane Inductance on Power Delivery Networks |
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Manuscript (1.3M, pdf file) |
Slides (2M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2019,
Santa Clara, CA, January 29 - 31, 2019 How to Design a Good PDN Filter (tutorial) |
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Slides (6.8M, pdf file) |
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DesignCon 2018, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29 - February 1, 2018
Measuring Current
and Current Sharing of DC-DC Converters
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Manuscript (1.9M, pdf file) | Slides (2.1M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2018, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29 - February 1, 2018
How Spatial
Variation of Voltage Regulator Output Impedance Depends
on Sense Point Location
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Manuscript (1.1M, pdf file) | Slides (1.5M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2018, Santa Clara, CA, January
29 - February 1, 2018
Tale of a Differential pair Measurement Best Paper Award Finalist |
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Manuscript (1.8M, pdf file) | Slides (3.5M, pdf file) |
EDICon 2017, Boston, MA,
September 11 - 13, 2017
Current
Sharing Measurements in Multi-Phase Switch Mode DC-DC
Converters
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Manuscript (1.7M, pdf file) | Slides (1.4M, pdf file) |
EDICon 2017, Boston, MA,
September 11 - 13, 2017
Transient Load
Tester for time Domain PDN Validation
Outstanding Paper Award |
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Manuscript (1.8M, pdf file) | Slides (3.7M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2017, Santa
Clara, CA, January 31 - February 2, 2017
Overview and Comparison of
Power Converter Stability Metrics
Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (1.4M, pdf file) | Slides (1.9M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2017, Santa
Clara, CA, January 31 - February 2, 2017
A Generic Test Tool for Power
Distribution Networks
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Manuscript (1.1M, pdf file) | Slides (1.8M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2017,
Santa Clara, CA, January 31 - February 2, 2017 Why We Love and Hate DC-DC Converters? (panel discussion) |
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Panel slides (1.6M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2016, Santa Clara, CA, January
19 - 21, 2016
Needs and Capabilities for Modeling of Capacitor Derating (panel discussion) |
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Panel slides (1.2M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2016, Santa Clara, CA, January
19 - 21, 2016
Target Impedance and Rogue Waves (panel discussion) |
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Panel slides (1.2M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2016, Santa Clara, CA, January
19 - 21, 2016
Measurement and Simulation of a High-Speed Electro/Optical Channel Best Paper Finalist |
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Manuscript (1.4M, pdf file) | Slides (1.3M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2016, Santa Clara, CA, January
19 - 21, 2016
Mid-Frequency Noise Coupling between DC-DC Converters and High-Speed Signals Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (2.7M, pdf file) | Slides (1M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2016, Santa Clara, CA, January
19 - 21, 2016
Electrical and Thermal Consequences of Non-flat Impedance Profiles Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (2.1M, pdf file) | Slides (2.2M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2015, Santa
Clara, CA, January 27 - 30, 2015
Does Skew Really Degrade SerDes
Performance?
Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (1.4M, pdf file) | Slides (2.1M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2015, Santa
Clara, CA, January 27 - 30, 2015
Simulating and Measuring Microohms
in PDNs
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Manuscript (0.84M, pdf file) | Slides (1.6M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2015, Santa
Clara, CA, January 27 - 30, 2015
Impact of Regulator
Sense-point Location on PDN Response
Best paper award at Cadence Design Live, September 2015, Boston MA |
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Manuscript (1M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2014,
Santa Clara, CA, January 28 - 31, 2014 Sources and Compensation of Skew in Single-Ended and Differential Interconnects |
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Manuscript (2.4M, pdf file) | Slides (2.4M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2014,
Santa Clara, CA, January 28 - 31, 2014 System-Level Power Integrity: Tools Providers and Tool Users Engage |
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Slides (1.2M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2013, Santa
Clara, CA, January 28 - 31, 2013
Impact of Probe Coupling on the Accuracy of Differential VNA Measurements |
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Manuscript (1.6M, pdf file) | Slides (3.4M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2013, Santa
Clara, CA, January 28 - 31, 2013
Determining PCB Trace Impedance by TDR: Challenges and Possible Solutions |
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Manuscript (1.3M, pdf file) | Slides (1.7M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2012, Santa
Clara, CA, January 30 - February 2, 2012
Temperature
and Moisture Dependence of PCB and Package Traces and
the Impact on Signal Performance
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Manuscript (1.8M, pdf file) | Slides (12.4M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2012, Santa
Clara, CA, January 30 - February 2, 2012
Vias,
Structural Details and their Effect on System
Performance
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Manuscript (2.4M, pdf file) | Slides (2.4M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2012, Santa
Clara, CA, January 30 - February 2, 2012
Dynamic Characterization of DC-DC Converters |
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Manuscript (3.3M, pdf file) | Slides (9.5M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2012, Santa
Clara, CA, January 30 - February 2, 2012
Panel discussion: What is New in DC-DC
Converters?
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Slides (9.5M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon East 2011,
Boston, MA, September 27, 2011
DC and AC Bias Dependence of Capacitors Including Temperature
Dependence
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Manuscript (1.8M, pdf file) | Slides (1.4M, pdf file) |
IEEE Microwave Magazine, August 2011
Focused Issue Feature: A New Dawn in R&D
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Manuscript (3.4M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2011, Santa
Clara,
CA,
January
31
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February 3, 2011
Inter-dependence of Dielectric and Conductive Losses in Interconnects |
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Manuscript (879K, pdf file) | Slides (1.6M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2011, Santa
Clara,
CA,
January
31
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February 3, 2011
Examining the Impact of Power Structures on EM Model Accuracy |
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Manuscript (6.8M, pdf file) | Slides (4.9M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2011, Santa
Clara,
CA,
January
31
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February 3, 2011
DC and AC Bias Dependence of Capacitors Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (966K, pdf file) | Slides (726K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2011, Santa
Clara,
CA,
January 31 - February 3, 2011
Capacitor Modeling
Requirements in the 21st Century |
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Manuscript (685K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2010, Santa
Clara, CA, February 1-4, 2010
Introduction and Comparison of an Alternate Methodology for Measuring Loss Tangent of PCB Laminates Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (785K, pdf file) | Slides (1M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2010, Santa
Clara, CA, February 1-4, 2010
Additional Trace Losses due to Glass-Weave Periodic Loading Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (890K, pdf file) | Slides (1.5M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2010, Santa
Clara, CA, February 1-4, 2010
Accuracy Improvements of PDN Impedance Measurements in the Low to Middle Frequency Range Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (834K, pdf file) | Slides (1.2M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2010, Santa
Clara,
CA,
February
1-4, 2010
Making Sense out of Dielectric
Loss Numbers, Specifications and Test Methods |
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Manuscript (935K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2009, Santa
Clara, CA, February 2-5, 2009
Examining the Impact of Split Planes on Signal and Power Integrity Best Paper Award |
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Manuscript (1.27M, pdf file) | Slides (5.49M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2009, Santa Clara, CA, February
2-5, 2009
Crosstalk In Via Pin-Fields, Including the Impact of Power Distribution Structures Best Paper Finalist |
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Manuscript (2.07M, pdf file) | Slides (604K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2009, Santa
Clara, CA, February 2-5, 2009
Power Distribution Planes: To Split or Not to Split? |
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Manuscript (1.37M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2008, Santa
Clara, CA, February 4-7, 2008
Impact of PCB Laminate Parameters on Suppressing Modal Resonances |
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Manuscript (361K, pdf file) | Slides (3.46M, pdf file) |
DesignCon2008, Santa
Clara, CA, February 4-7, 2008
Impedance of High-Speed Traces: Specification and Consistency in Manufacturing |
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Slides (185K, pdf file) | |
Ansoft: EMI Control
and PCB Power Analysis workshop, 22 August 2007,
Boston, MA
Reducing EMI Noise by Suppressing Power-Distribution Resonances |
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Slides (801K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2007, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29-31, 2007
Crosstalk due to Periodic
Plane Cutouts |
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Manuscript (265K, pdf file) | Slides (170K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2007, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29-31, 2007
Losses Induced by Asymmetry in Differential Transmission Lines |
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Manuscript (501K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2007, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29-31, 2007
History of Controlled-ESR Capacitors at SUN in TecForum TF-MP3 Controlled-ESR Bypass Capacitors Have Arrived |
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Manuscript (235K, pdf file) | Slides (774K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2007, Santa
Clara, CA, January 29-31, 2007
Emerging Challenges of DC-DC Converters |
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Manuscript (376K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2006, Santa
Clara, CA, February 6-9, 2006
Attenuation in PCB Traces Due
to Periodical Discontinuities |
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Manuscript (701K, pdf file) | Slides (968K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2006, Santa
Clara, CA, February 6-9, 2006
Slow Wave Causal Model for Multi Layer Ceramic Capacitors |
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Manuscript (259K, pdf file) | Slides (367K, pdf file) |
DesignCon2006, Santa
Clara, CA, February 6-9, 2006 Bypass Capacitor Selection
Based on Time
Domain and Frequency Domain Performances |
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Manuscript (257K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2006, Santa
Clara, CA, February 6-9, 2006
SUN’s Experience with Thin and Ultra Thin Laminates
for Power Distribution Applications |
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Manuscript (237K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2005 East,
High-Performance System Design Conference,
Worcester, MA, September 19-22, 2005
TecForum TF-MP2 Inductance of Bypass Capacitors: How to Define, How to Measure, How to Simulate |
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Manuscript (910K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2005 East,
High-Performance System Design Conference,
Worcester, MA, September 19-22, 2005
A Black-Box Frequency Dependent Model of Capacitors for Frequency Domain Simulations |
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Manuscript (340K, pdf file) | Excel animated
file (7.9M, xls file) |
DesignCon2005, High-Performance Systems Design
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Jan 31-Feb 3, 2005 TecForum TF7 Inductance of Bypass Capacitors: How to Define, How to Measure, How to Simulate |
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Manuscript (1.4M, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2005, High-Performance Systems Design
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Jan 31-Feb 3, 2005 Characterizing and Modeling the Impact of Power/Ground Via Arrays on Power Plane Impedance |
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Manuscript (211K, pdf file) | Slides (4.46M, pdf file) |
Xilinx's Xcell Journal Online, Issue 49, Summer
2004 Tolerance Calculations in Power Distribution Networks |
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Manuscript (427K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2004, High-Performance Systems Design
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2-5, 2004 Board and Package Level PDN Simulations |
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Manuscript (153K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon2004, High-Performance Systems Design
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2-5, 2004 Thin and Very Thin Laminates for Power Distribution Applications: What is New in 2004? |
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Manuscript (1.3M, pdf file) | Slides (2.85M, pdf file) |
DesignCon 2003 East, High-Performance System
Design Conference, Boston, MA, June 23-25, 2003 Frequency Domain Analysis and Electrical Properties Test Method for PCB Dielectric Core Materials |
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Manuscript (111k, pdf file) | |
DesignCon 2003 East, High-Performance System
Design Conference, Boston, MA, June 23-25, 2003 Frequency Domain Power Distribution Measurements - An Overview |
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Manuscript (917K, pdf file) | |
11th Topical
Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic
Packaging October 21-23, 2002, Monterey, CA Simulating Complex Power-Ground Plane Shapes with Variable-Size Cell SPICE Grids |
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Manuscript (45K, pdf file) | Slides (0.4M, pdf file) |
11th Topical
Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic
Packaging October 21-23, 2002, Monterey, CA Calculating Partial Inductance of Vias for printed Circuit Board Modeling |
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Manuscript (132K, pdf file) | |
Manuscript for
IEEE Tr. CPMT, August 2002 Distributed Matched Bypassing for Power Distribution Network |
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extended manuscript (2.8M, pdf file) |
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DesignCon
2002, High-Performance System Design Conference, San
Jose, CA, January 28 - 31, 2002 Thin PCB Laminates for Power Distribution - How Thin is Thin Enough? |
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Manuscript (1.46M, pdf file) | SUN slides (417K, pdf file) |
Manuscript for
IEEE Tr. CPMT, Vol.23, No.3, August 2000 Design Considerations and Modeling Accuracy of Lossy Power Distribution Networks |
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extended manuscript (0.2M, pdf file) |
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DesignCon2000, High-Performance Systems
Design Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 1-4, 2000 Measuring Milliohms and Picohenrys in Power Distribution Networks Outstanding Paper Award |
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Manuscript (266K, pdf file) | Slides (575K, pdf file) |
IPC Boston Chapter Meeting, Boston, MA,
February 9, 1999 Powering Digital Boards |
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Slides (444K, pdf file) | |
DesignCon99, High-Performance Systems Design
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 1-4, 1999 Probes and Setup for Measuring Power-Plane Impedances with Vector-Network Analyzer Outstanding Paper Award |
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Manuscript (444K, pdf file) | Slides (610K, pdf file) |
Intl. Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility, Zurich, March 7-9, 1995 Waveform Distortion in Length-equalised Clock-Distribution Interconnects |
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Manuscript (71K, pdf file) | |
1995 Design SuperCon, February 1995, Santa Clara CA. | |
scanned
conference proceedings (331 MB, pdf file) |
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1994 International Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility, May 17-19, 1994, Sendai, Japan. Crosstalk Reduction on Stripline Printed Circuit Boards with Additional Center Traces |
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Manuscript (98K, pdf file) | |
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conference, May 10-12, 1994, Shizuoka, Japan. Reduction of Far-End Crosstalk on Coupled Microstrip PCB Interconnect |
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Manuscript (66K, pdf file) | |
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conference, May 10-12, 1994, Shizuoka, Japan. Correction of Time Domain Measurement Data of Vector Network Analyzers |
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Manuscript (58K, pdf file) | |
1994 Wroclaw EMC Symposium, June 28 – July 1,
1994, Wroclaw, Poland. EMC Issues of Wide PCB Buses |
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Manuscript (128K, pdf file) | |
Hewlett Packard High-Speed Digital
Design Symposium, April 5, 1993, Budapest, Hungary |
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Scanned
proceedings (53 MB) |
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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conference, New York, May 12-14, 1992. Modeling, Simulation and Measurement Considerations of High-speed Digital Buses |
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Manuscript (107K, pdf file) | |
1982 IEEE Power Electronics Specialist
Conference Stability Analysis of Constant-Frequency Current-Mode-Controlled Switching Regulators Operating above 50% Duty Ratio |
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Manuscript (3.96M, pdf file) | |
1981 IEEE Power Electronics Specialist
Conference Instabilities in Current-Mode Controlled Switching Regulators |
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Manuscript (831K, pdf file) | |
1980 International Power Conversion Conference,
September 3-5, 1980, Munich, West Germany. Stability Analysis of Constant-Frequency Current-Mode-Controlled Power Converters |
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Manuscript (4.43M, pdf file) | |
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