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Objective: Understand and remedy the sources or noise and radiation in mixed signal and digital systems.

Length: 90 minutes

Published Date: Jul 30, 04

Step(s) to complete

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Online Seminar: Controlling Noise and Radiation in Mixed-Signal and Digital Systems

This seminar will explore the effects of signal integrity and circuit design upon noise in mixed signal environments.


About the Instructor: Nicholas "Nick" Gray is a Staff Applications Engineer with National Semiconductor's Data Conversion Products Group in Santa Clara, California, where he has been employed since 1991. He is currently working on the development of new products in the area of Analog-to-Digital Converters. A writer of many technical articles, Nick's career includes video circuit design and 19 years as an applications engineer for data conversion products. Nick holds a BSEE degree from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington (1965) and has done graduate work at California State University, San Jose.
 

Reading Assignment:

AN-769 - Dynamic Specifications for Sampling A/D Converters
AN-1261 - Power Supply Effects on Noise Performance
AN-804 - Improving A/D Converter Performance Using Dither

 


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