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Francesco Poderico
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Conductive Immunity failure due to a two layers stack PCB
Over the last ten years, I have seen so many PCBs fail conductive immunity that I could write a book about it. In most cases, the errors...
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Francesco Poderico
Feb 1, 20232 min read
A note on Analog VDD
These days, we tend to encounter circuits with microcontrollers that incorporate AD/DA converters as a part of their design. As an...
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Francesco Poderico
Jan 24, 20233 min read
Radiated emissions due to split planes.
As part of my job, I have been analyzing PCB layouts that have been designed by third parties. Whenever I do this, it is interesting to...
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Francesco Poderico
Jan 11, 20233 min read
Conductive emissions issues due to rectifier diodes
There is a feeling in me that sometimes the old books are better than the new ones. As an example, a book by Hnatek called Design of...
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Francesco Poderico
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Typical errors on Ribbon Cables
In today's world, ribbon cables are widely used as a way to interconnect PCBs with each other. They are low-cost and very easy to...
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Francesco Poderico
Dec 31, 20222 min read
Criteria A, Criteria B and the Criteria C.
Back in the day, when testing was conducted for EMC, it was possible to perform tests, such as immunity tests, during which the device...
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Francesco Poderico
Dec 7, 20223 min read
CAN BUS protection.
The CAN interface is the most common BUS inside a car. Some years back, I was introduced to the CAN bus by a good friend of mine from...
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