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Phase Response in Active Filters: The Band-Pass Response

Phase Response in Active Filters: The Band-Pass Response

While filters are designed primarily for their amplitude response, the phase response can be important in some applications.


Understanding Switching Regulator Output Artifacts Expedites Power Supply Design

Understanding Switching Regulator Output Artifacts Expedites Power Supply Design

Understanding these artifacts allows designers to successfully integrate switching regulators in a wider range of high-performance, noise-sensitive applications.


USB Type-C Cables: The New Frontier

USB Type-C Cables: The New Frontier

USB Type-C: the final frontier. These are the trials and tribulations of navigating this new cable.


Designing for Low Noise Feedback Control with MEMS Gyroscopes

Designing for Low Noise Feedback Control with MEMS Gyroscopes

Learn about noise behaviors in MEMS gyroscopes.


How to Use an E-Paper Display in Embedded Applications

How to Use an E-Paper Display in Embedded Applications

Learn how e-paper displays work and how to integrate low power e-paper displays into your embedded projects.


MIPI D-PHY Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

MIPI D-PHY Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

This video shows the R&S RTO-K26 MIPI D-PHY compliance test options which provides automated testing to the MIPI D-PHY standard for camera and display interfaces.


Evaluating the Performance of RF Assemblies Controlled by a MIPI-RFFE Interface with an Oscilloscope

Evaluating the Performance of RF Assemblies Controlled by a MIPI-RFFE Interface with an Oscilloscope

This video demonstrates how the R&S RTO-K40 option can be used to measure response times of front end components such as power amplifiers (PA) and switches controlled by the MIPI RFFE control interface.


Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Internet of Things (IoT) devices combine multiple functional cores in highly integrated Wireless Embedded designs and face often challenging long-term battery live time requirement.


Capturing of Intermittent RF Signals with the Zone Trigger with an Oscilloscope

Capturing of Intermittent RF Signals with the Zone Trigger with an Oscilloscope

Zone Triggering typically allows to define a trigger condition based on an area of voltage and time.


Analysis of Wideband Pulse Signals with an Oscilloscope

Analysis of Wideband Pulse Signals with an Oscilloscope

This video shows how the R&S RTO oscilloscope with its vector signal explorer (VSE) software can be used to analyze wide band pulsed RF signals in terms of frequency, phase, amplitude, and timing.


Measurement of Very Small Currents with an Oscilloscope

Measurement of Very Small Currents with an Oscilloscope

Measuring small currents has become increasingly important for battery powered portable and wearable consumer devices, IoT and medical applications.


eMMC Interfaces Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

eMMC Interfaces Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

Embedded multi-media cards (eMMC) are widely used in the industry as the primary memory for portable devices.


Testing Conducted Emission in the R&D Lab with an Oscilloscope

Testing Conducted Emission in the R&D Lab with an Oscilloscope

Conducted emissions are electromagnetic disturbances caused by a device and conducted out by interconnects such as the power supply lines.


EMI Debugging with an Oscilloscope

EMI Debugging with an Oscilloscope

Meeting EMI and EMC requirements is critical to bringing electronic products to market. Compliance testing requires expensive equipment and test time at a compliance laboratory.


Power Integrity Test with an Oscilloscope

Power Integrity Test with an Oscilloscope

Today’s highly integrated electronic devices use smaller voltage levels and, as a result, require much smaller ripple levels on the power rails for reliable operation.


SpaceWire Triggering & Decoding with an Oscilloscope

SpaceWire Triggering & Decoding with an Oscilloscope

SpaceWire is a new serial bus standard for aircraft and areospace applications that supports bit rate up to 400 Mbps. The R&S option K65, SpaceWire trigger & decode, for RTE and RTO offers triggering and decoding of SpaceWire protocol communication.