After our PCB Layout Design workshop presented by Robert Feranec, Sierra Circuits is hosting Steve Sandler’s hands-on power integrity workshop on December 3rd and 4th at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.

Course Overview

Steve Sandler, an internationally recognized power expert, developed this in-depth, 2-day hands-on workshop to provide you with the fundamentals of power integrity. You’ll learn why it is important and how to design for it, measure it and troubleshoot it. This workshop teaches high-fidelity measurement, design, and simulation techniques. The combination of lecture and hands-on exercises allows attendees to explore the presented topics in real-time while being mentored by an expert in the field. The hands-on approach allows you to gain confidence in your ability to apply these skills on your own, at your workplace. You will learn to measure, optimize and troubleshoot most common power integrity related issues.

What You Will Learn

Why clean power matters and how to obtain it

How to set the power supply noise budget

What frequency you should be measuring to

How to measure each portion of the PDN (VRM, decoupling, planes, loads)

How to interpret an impedance plot and use it to optimize performance

Which specific measurements are critical for success

How to make impedance, stability, PSRR, step load, and ripple measurements

What test equipment is necessary to complete the above measurements successfully

Benefits

Improve your first-pass design quality, thereby reducing board iterations

Gain a better understanding of why Power Integrity is important

Improve your Power Integrity simulation models

Get the latest tips and techniques for flat impedance design

Improve the performance of high performance digital and RF circuitry

Hands-On Measurements

Components

Calibration

1-Port, 2-Port, 2-Port Extended

Resistors, Capacitors (Ceramic & Tantalum), Inductors

Impedance Adapters

Impedance

Probe Selection

Voltage Reference

Opamps

Voltage Regulator/LDO/POL

Stability and PSRR

Bode Plot

Non-Invasive Stability Margin (NISM) via Output Impedance

PSRR Measurement

Time Domain

Impedance Matching

Oscilloscope Noise Floor

Ripple

Step Load

PDN and Flat Impedance Measurement

Demonstration Examples: Troubleshooting Power Integrity Issues

Clock Jitter/Spectrum Analysis

Noise Density

EMI and Troubleshooting with Near Field Probes

Price

$1,500 per person for the two days.

This covers breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

For more information, email Lucy at lucyi@protoexpress.com!

Watch the overview of our previous workshop at the Levi’s Stadium: