Jun 8, 2009

Trolling for gold in the BlackBerry Bold

Trolling for gold in the BlackBerry BoldResearch In Motion's BlackBerry Bold gets a tech inspection courtesty of an EDN partnership with phoneWreck.

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6659415.html

Jun 7, 2009

VLSI & Signal Processing Conferences

VLSI & Signal Processing Conferences

http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/vcl/misc/conferences.html

Respect the Unstable - G. Stein

G. Stein, “Respect the unstable,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 23, no. 4, Aug. 2003, pp. 12 – 25.

http://flyingv.ucsd.edu/krstic/teaching/143b/GSBode.pdf

Jun 2, 2009

Middlebrook’s Structured Analog Design Course

Middlebrook’s New Structured Analog Design Course


DESIGN-ORIENTED ANALYSIS RULES AND TOOLS

http://www.rdmiddlebrook.com/D_OA_Rules&Tools/index.asp



Downloadable Files of D-OA Rules & Tools:
Ch 01.Motivation & Background.pdf
Ch 01A.FETs & BJTs are CCDs.pdf
Ch 02.Low Entropy Expressions.pdf
Ch 03.Normal & Inverted Poles & Zeros.pdf
Ch 04.Improved Formula for Quadratic Roots.pdf
Ch 05.Approximations & Assumptions.pdf
Ch 06.Products & Sums of Factored P-Z Expressions.pdf
Ch 07.The IO IT.pdf
Ch 08.NDI & EET.pdf
Ch 09.DT & CT.pdf
Ch 10.Basic Feedback.pdf
Ch 11.NDI & GFT.pdf
Ch 12.DNTI & 2EET.pdf
Ch 13.DNTI & 2GFT.pdf
Ch 14.2CE Feedback Amp.pdf
Ch 15.Realistic IC Feedback Amp.pdf
Ch 16.Darlington Follower Instability.pdf
Ch 17.Input Filter Problem.pdf
Ch.18.CurrProgSwReg.pdf
Glossary.pdf
NDI,Nullor,GFT Template.pdf

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[5] R.D.Middlebrook, Vatché Vorpérian, and John Lindal, "The N Extra Element Theorem," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, vol. 45, no. 9, Sept. 1998.; pp. 919-935.
[6] Vatché Vorpérian, Fast Analytical Techniques for Electrical and Electronic Circuits,, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.