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April 2008



Built in Measurement Systems

Friday, 18 April 2008 6:19 A GMT-06
I have written in a past article related to Vitesse's Oscilloscope on Chip technology about measurement equipment being embedded inside chips.  The main reason for this trend is that at very high speeds, even the package connection is a tra

Cable Loss Calculations

Saturday, 12 April 2008 5:25 A GMT-06
In a previous article I described a transmission line mathcad sheet that I created that contains many of the mathematical relationships for transmission lines.  I made some modifications and extensions to that sheet specifically for modeling the

Heating and Cooling in Wisconsin Followup

Saturday, 5 April 2008 8:29 P GMT-06
This is a follow up article on the results from the Heating and Cooling in Wisconsin article.  The quick analysis in that article seemed to indicate that there would be little savings from using a heat pump assuming a seasonal efficiency rating
Category: Energy

Waveform Viewer

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 8:28 P GMT-06
I came across a waveform viewer tool that can be very useful for signal integrity engineers.  The viewer is created by IO Methodology Inc.  They have a freely distributed version called SignalMeth that includes the viewer without support.&