Publications

Books:

SI Journals

2019

Making Lemonade with the 10x Scope Probe

Guard Traces: Love Them or Leave Them?

Nuggets from New Orleans

One Chance Decision Changed the EMC Community

Young Professionals Placed in Jeopardy at 2019 EMC Symposium

The New Touchstone Specification 3.0 Awaits for Your Input

Test Your TDR with a DMM

Instant Cable Testing and the Surprising Results

Seven Habits of Successful 2-Layer Board Designers

Practical Application of the IEEE P370 Standard for Measurement of Interconnects up to 50 GHz

IEEE P370: A Fixture Design and Data Quality Metric Standard for Interconnects up to 50 GHz

Free Beta Code to Implement Impedance Corrected 2X Thru De-Embedding Algorithm

Just how good are VNA Measurements?

The Future of Power Integrity

Electric Circuits, a Primer: Essential Building Block Principles for All Electrical Engineers

Avoid These Two Artifacts When Measuring SMPS Power Rails

Quick, Simple Way to Measure the System Bandwidth of a Scope-Probe System

Target Impedance Is Not Enough

2018

Ten Golden Rules of EMC

Kicking The Bounce Out of Your Circuits

Just How Good Is Your Sine Wave Generator, and How Do You Know?

We Live in the White Space

VRM Modeling: A Strategy to Survive the Collision of Three Worlds

EDI CON Conversations Offer New Insights

Life at the Low End

State of the Art Laminates Still Have Some Life Left

Impedance: The Most Confusing Term in Signal Integrity

Why On-Die Power-Rail Measurements are Important

How to Measure Shared On-Die Power Rails

Bandwidth, Current Load and Power-Rail Measurements

Mitigate RF Pickup In Power Rails

Back to Basics: Bandwidth and Rise Time

Validating IBIS Models with Measurements

A Design Rule Check List

First ever IEEE P370 Plug Fest Draws a Crowd

Two New Open Source Tools for De-embedding

How You Probe a Differential Pair Affects What You Measure

DesignCon PDN Tutorial Challenges the Way We Think About Fundamental Electrical Engineering

Time to Drink from the Firehose Again

Test Drive the IEEE P370 Draft De-Embed Standard

2017

GIFTS FOR SIJ READERS

High Speed Digital Symposium Highlights

Winner of the Coolest Product Demo at the 2017 EMC Symposium

Real Time FFT Makes EMI Debug So Much Easier.

Ground Rules for Grounding

Why Do We Care About PDN Design?

Does Coupling Matter in Characterizing the Loss of a Differential Pair?

Beware of Misinterpreting Measurements Without This Key Piece of Information

What Exactly is Power Integrity?

Ten Tips for Best Board Design Practices for IoT Applications

Measuring Glass Weave Skew and the Identification of an Important Hidden Variable Artifact

IEEE P370 Working Group Update

 

DesignCon

2020

2018

DesignCon: SI, PI, EMI Have a Future Together

DesignCon 2018 Recap

2017

Eric Bogatin at DesignCon 2017

DesignCon Interview 2017: Eric Bogatin

2016

Eric Bogatin at DesignCon 2016

DesignCon 2016 Honors Dr. Eric Bogatin with Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award

2014

Eric Bogatin at DesignCon 2014

 

Rules of Thumb Published in EDN:

Rules of Thumb #0: Using Rules of Thumb Wisely

Rule of Thumb #1: Bandwidth of a signal from its rise time

Rule of Thumb #2: Signal bandwidth from clock frequency

Rule of Thumb #3 Signal speed on an interconnect

Rule of Thumb #4: Skin depth of copper

Rule of Thumb #5: Capacitance per length of 50 Ohm transmission lines in FR4

Total loop inductance/length in 50 Ohm transmission lines: Rule of Thumb #6

Total inductance in the return path: Rule of Thumb #7

How to estimate ground bounce in a connector: Rule of Thumb #8

Loss in a channel: Rule of Thumb #9

How much attenuation is too much?: Rule of Thumb #10

What is the bandwidth of a high speed serial-link signal?: Rule of Thumb #11

How much return loss is too much?: Rule of Thumb #12

Sheet resistance of copper foil: Rule of Thumb #13

Resistance of a copper trace: Rule of Thumb #14

Estimating wire & loop inductance: Rule of Thumb #15

Sheet inductance of a cavity: Rule of Thumb #16

The quarter-wave stub frequency: Rule of Thumb #17

How long a stub is too long?: Rule of Thumb #18

Crosstalk: How much is too much?: Rule of Thumb #19

How far is far enough? Signal line spacing for acceptable near end crosstalk: Rule of Thumb #20

How to engineer acceptable far-end crosstalk: Rule of Thumb #21

What is the frequency of the S21 dip in microstrip?: Rule of Thumb #22

When to worry about a capacitive discontinuity: Rule of Thumb #23

When to worry about trace corners: Rule of Thumb #24

How much is impedance affected by an adjacent trace?: Rule of Thumb #25

What is the ringing period on an unterminated line?: Rule of Thumb #26

What is the aspect ratio for 50Ω microstrip?: Rule of Thumb #27

What is the aspect ratio for 50Ω stripline?: Rule of Thumb #28

What is the spatial extent of an edge?: Rule of Thumb #29

What is the resonant frequency of a cavity?: Rule of Thumb #30

How much common current is too much?: Rule of Thumb #31

How much mode conversion is too much?: Rule of Thumb #32

 

EDN Articles

2014

Measure a 75Ω cable with a 50Ω VNA

Practice safe simulation

2013

Glass weave skew problems may be solved

The Bloch Wave effect

An important secret about transmission lines

Delay Line SI Puzzler

So you think you understand transmission lines

How to think in dB

Not all common currents are bad

Always a good policy to question authority

Special day for physicists' cats

Robust crosstalk design rules

Characterizing a high-density, controlled impedance test interface

Characterize a high-density, controlled impedance test interface

2012

Use S-parameters to describe crosstalk

Avoid a common S-parameter problem

2008

Making the transition from bit banger to gigabit guru

2004

Analysis of board layout helps cure jitter problems

What you lose from a lossy line

 

Nuts and Volts

2017

Build a Geiger Counter to Monitor a Radioactive Cat

Build this Professional Grade Data Acquisition System

2016

Make Your LED Dance Just Like a Candle

Why You Need an Analog Front End and How to Set It Up

2015

Power Sources: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Arduino Based Data Acquisition

 

Other

ANALYSIS OF VIA TO VIA CROSSTALK FOR SINGLE ENDED SIGNALS IN THE TIME & FREQUENCY DOMAINS