Radar Signal Analysis With Oscilloscope Demodulation
Learn how oscilloscope demodulation and FFTs reveal radar pulse envelopes, Barker-coded phase modulation, chirp behavior, and frequency content.
Characterizing rail transient response and mutual aggressor noise helps quantify droop, ripple, and recovery behavior in power delivery networks.
Ground-referenced passive probes can create dangerous short circuits in high-voltage power systems—use properly rated differential probes instead.
Understanding your lab’s RF background with spectral analysis and near-field probing helps separate real device emissions from environmental noise.
MDI S-parameter testing ensures Automotive Ethernet links meet strict EMC requirements by controlling reflections and common-to-differential mode conversion.
Maximize oscilloscope dynamic range by combining higher vertical resolution, averaging, filtering, and smart display and coupling practices.
Understanding PCIe’s layered architecture reveals why capturing synchronized physical- and protocol-layer behavior is essential for effective link debugging.
CrossSync PHY enables time-synchronized protocol and oscilloscope analysis to diagnose unexpected PCIe link equalization and preset training behavior.
CrossSync PHY enables time-synchronized oscilloscope and protocol analysis to verify PCIe L1 substate clock request and reference clock timing.
Near-field measurements capture all radiation components close to a device, but only dipole terms dominate far-field EMC compliance results.
Time-domain near-field probing reveals radiated emission signatures synchronized with switching currents, helping pinpoint return path discontinuities before EMC testing.
Small amounts of common current from ground bounce and return path gaps can turn ordinary interconnects into efficient radiating antennas.
By correlating filtered power rail variations with clock period tracking, you can quantify and verify a clock’s jitter sensitivity to supply noise.