As the primary switching device used in a broad range of power conversion applications, MOSFETs play a central role in power supply design. Defining their performance characteristics is crucial to ...

You need to know how to measure the current that flows through a component in a circuit and the voltage across it. The ammeter must be connected in series with the component – remember, in a series ...

High-capacity, multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) have a property often not well understood by electronic designers: the capacitance of these devices varies with applied DC voltage. This phenomenon ...

A Voltmeter provides a method to accurately measure voltage, which is the difference in electric potential between two points in a circuit, without changing the voltage in that circuit. It is an ...

Login to download the PDF of this article on how to measure voltage ripple and switching nodes for switch-mode power supplies. When evaluating a switch-mode power supply (SMPS), there are many key ...

Measuring resistance doesn’t seem to be a big deal. Put your meter leads across two wires or terminals and read the value, right? Most of the time that is good enough, but sometimes you need better ...