RE: [SI-LIST] : Decoupling capacitors (again!)

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From: Larry Smith ([email protected])
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 10:03:43 PDT


Istvan - If you are not going to plug your excellent work published at
Design Con 2000, I will! Istvan has shown how to overcome some of the
difficult measurement challenges in:

        "Measuring Milliohms and Picohenrys in Power Distribution Networks"

        http://home.att.net/~istvan.novak/papers.html
        
regards,
Larry Smith
Sun Microsystems

> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Istvan Novak - Board Design Technology <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : Decoupling capacitors (again!)
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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> Larry,
>
> If my math is correct, 0.02 ohms at 200MHz represents about 15pH of inductance. Not
> easy, but today we can measure such low values with vector network analyzers. With
> two-port measurements, the limit is really due to the probe configuration and
> connection. With nothing fancy, you can go down to a few picohenrys with the residual
> inductance.
>
> Regards
>
> Istvan Novak
> SUN Microsystems
>
> X-Unix-From: [email protected] Thu Aug 17 17:34:42 2000
> From: "Larry Miller" <[email protected]>
> To: Martin J Thompson <[email protected]>, si-list
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : Decoupling capacitors (again!)
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:51:49 -0700
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> Twenty milli-ohms. 0.02 ohm. At 100 MHz. How does one measure such a
> curiosity?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Miller
> (Not the other Larry)

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