Closed-loop control systems are sometimes shipped from the factory with resonances and other operational difficulties that aren't supposed to be part of the package and are not well understood.

[Rolinychupetin] insists that his recent video is not a lecture but actually a “recitation” about Bode plots. That may be, but it is still worth a watch if you want to learn more about the topic. You ...

(Editor's Note: There are links to the previous parts of this series at the end, below the author's biography.) The first article in this series, published November 5, 2007 (link below) left a gain ...

Oscilloscopes are the primary measurement tools used today by engineers to test and characterize their power supply designs. The R&S®RTx-K36 frequency response analysis (Bode plot) option provides a ...

Noise is a fact of life, especially in electronic circuits. But on our paper schematics and just as often our simulations, there is no noise. If you are blinking an LED on a breadboard, you probably ...

Christophe Basso is an Application Engineering Director at ON Semiconductor in Toulouse, France, where he leads an application team dedicated to developing new offline controllers specifications. He ...

Here is the second of three short tech nuggets, by Rich Nowakowski from TI, before our “Ask the experts” session on Wednesday, July 23 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT). Hopefully these brief blogs will ...