TonyStewart‭

Allow me to address the MOSFET only as a source follower. this has very unpredictable linear use without voltage = current feedback as the RdsOn at threshold has a wide tolerance.(>20%) (Many...

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Capacitors are lossless with 0 ESR and rise in temperature and become less reliable by 50% for every 10’C rise due to I^2ESR=Pd losses. However the current spectrum must be known with the ESR frequ...

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This is about as simple an analog inverter that I can simulate, but warning, not for the beginner with resonance issues. The bridge diodes are 2f multipliers reduced to logic level with divide by ...

posted 6mo ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by TonyStewart‭

How to test a Tunnel diode in 25 words or less. With DC bias = ~490mV with fine tuning and a small signal swing of 60mV you can generate a IV negative slope of -16 Ohms.

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Anti-Aliasing filter depends on the following parameters; Signal BW Sampling Rate Sampling duration and thus BW of sample LPF attenuation of alias spectrum above 1. From your SNR spec or dy...

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DC offsets in hundreds of mV from different grounds may be coming from either the floating ground or the PE earth. The latter may be from rectified AC line filter noise shunted to PE. The former m...

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A resonator cannot replace a filter because the filter has multiple resonances to extend the bandwidth. For AM carrier modulation using a narrow band resonator with 0.5% tolerance of 6MHz or +/-30...

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To understand the timing, you must understand the cause. Delay is the time from input to output It is measured from +10% of input to 90% of output ( or a 10% change in output), unlike logic chips ...

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To answer some of your questions: Cable inductance: approx 1uH/m +/-50% depends slightly on l/d ratio , while cable impedance from sqrt(L/C) depends on twists/ft 50pF/m while coax is ~100pF/m ...

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Corners and chambers that are a small fraction of a wavelength are not significant in the <4Ghz band. More significant is the tolerance and loss tangent on the substrate. They would hardly be m...

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Reactance is the lossless part of impedance that stores and releases energy E=1/2 LI^2 or 1/2CV^2 . Much like a spring stores energy when compressed or expanded. L is a conductor that stores curr...

posted 10mo ago by TonyStewart‭

Filter design 101 given hypothetical high-pass (HPF) filter -3dB gain HPF at fc attenuation of -8dB at fc/2 Assumptions gain = 0 dB at f>> fc Ripple between -3dB and 0 dB...

posted 6mo ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by TonyStewart‭

The oversampling is said to simplify the LPF yet the better reason is that it improves the SNR. Lower noise comes from better image rejection, lower filter ringing, and significantly lower group d...

posted 4mo ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by TonyStewart‭

The RSSI detector in the receiver is the best field tool. In Windows I had a tool (Wifi Radar?) that read the Broadcom IC RSSI and displayed a time plot of the results as I changed laptop orientati...

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This LC circuit depends on several criteria for stable linear oscillation; 180 deg phase shift ( with 3rd order LC network) plus 180 degree inversion to achieve the oscillation criteria of 0 or ...

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