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June 14th, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow
June 9th, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
April 17th 2019
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Oct 14th, 2020
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July 21st, 2021
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Nov 18th, 2020
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Sept 17th, 2020
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June 21, 2023
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder
December 7th, 2021
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November 16th, 2021
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October 26th, 2021
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October 5th, 2021
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Sept 23rd, 2020
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Apr 28th, 2021
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July 13, 2022
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August 10, 2022
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December 7th, 2022
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October 6th, 2022
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder
July 20th, 2022
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder
June 3rd, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
Jan 13th, 2021
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Feb 3rd, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
Mar 17th, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
November 6th 2019
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
January 15th 2020
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July 16th, 2020
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July 23rd, 2020
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Aug 5th, 2020
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
May 6th 2020
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March 4th 2020
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December 9th, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
May 19th, 2021
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
August 7th 2019
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
October 2nd 2019
Presenter: Eric Bogatin, Dean of the Signal Integrity Academy
December 4th 2019
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February 5th 2020
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April 1st 2020
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Online video classes with Dr. Eric Bogatin.
Signal Integrity Academy Getting Started Guide
In the Lab with Eric Bogatin, 2024 Edition
Best PCB Design & Measurement Practices Webinar Series

Join Teledyne LeCroy and Professor Eric Bogatin for this series of 30-minute webinars that describe how to design, build, test, measure and debug your assembled printed circuit board.

Part 1: Design it Right the First Time – Practical PCB Design and Layout Tips

Date: February 8
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes cautions about use of reference designs, describes layout tips to optimize your design for connectivity, signal integrity, assembly, test and bring up, outlines features to reduce switching noise between signals and power rails, and details common problems to watch for.

Part 2: Mastering the Oscilloscope for Signal and Noise Measurements

Date: March 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes using an oscilloscope in the most effective way possible by minimizing the noise from measurement artifacts and using best measurement practices to optimize SNR. Eric will describe common do’s and don’ts, how to optimize the signal into the oscilloscope, measuring signals correctly, and much more.

Part 3: Building a Prototype PCB and Making Tradeoffs

Date: April 11
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes building a solderless breadboard version of a PCB to reduce schedule delays, increase confidence in the design before it is sent for assembly, and gain insight into what debug features to add.

Part 4: Understanding the Function Generator and Using it Properly

Date: March 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric provides a brief intro to using a function generator and understanding its output impedance by measuring its Thevenin voltage and its Thevenin resistance. These two figures of merit are compared as settings of the function generator are changed.

Part 5: Using the Oscilloscope to Measure Loop-to-loop Crosstalk

Date: June 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes how to measure the loop-to-loop crosstalk between two loops to understand the principles of mutual inductance and what PCB design features will reduce this common source of noise.

Part 6: Using a Slammer Circuit and Reducing Power Rail Switching Noise with Decoupling Capacitors

Date: July 11
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes how to build a simple slammer circuit that will draw a fast transient current from the power rail to simulate a rapid load and release, and how to minimize the transient switching noise on the power rail using decoupling capacitors.

Part 7: Getting the Lead Out – Expert Soldering Tips

Date: August 8
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric provides practical guidance about how to create good solder joints by satisfying the three important conditions for temperature, cleanliness, and solder flux.

Part 8: Understanding On-die Rail Voltages by Measuring Quiet High and Low Signals

Date: September 12
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric describes a simple hex inverter circuit and demonstrates how to probe a quiet HIGH or LOW signal in the circuit to “sniff” the power rail voltage (HIGH) or the ground voltage (LOW) on the die.

Part 9: Measuring Crosstalk Between Signal Return Loops

Date: October 10
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how two different interconnect approaches (continuous ground plane and adjacent return trace) will affect the amount of crosstalk between an aggressor and victim signal-return path pair.

Part 10: Measuring the Impact of Crosstalk in Ribbon Cables With Different Ground Topologies

Date: November 14
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how to measure the ground bounce in a ribbon cable carrying digital signals and how the choice of ground pins in the connector dramatically affects the cross talk.

Part 11: Measure Trace Resistance with a Digital Multimeter (DMM)

Date: December 12
Time: 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

In this webinar, Eric demonstrates how to use a DMM on a simple two-layer PCB to make both 2-wire and 4-wire resistance measurements and then comparing as measured values to estimates.

Presented by: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder


On Demand Webinar
Fundamentals of EMI Tutorial:
3 Simple Pre-compliance Tests You Should Be Performing

Avoid expensive EMI problems that prevent your product from shipping on time, and don’t wait until final certification test to find an EMI problem in your design. Instead, design them out of your product so they do not occur, and then do initial EMI testing as early in the product development cycle as possible. In this webinar, we will describe three common design features to avoid to reduce EMI problems and demonstrate pre-compliance tests that will identify problems before you submit your product for an expensive EMI compliance test.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

  • Why it is hard to pass an EMI certification test
  • Three common design features that cause EMI failures
  • Three oscilloscope measurement techniques to identify potential EMI problems
  • Two special probes you should be using for EMI pre-compliance testing
  • How to set up and use real time spectral analysis to find EMI problems

Who should attend? Hardware engineers, circuit designers, PCB designers, test engineers, EMC engineers, and embedded systems engineers.

What attendees will learn? You will learn the three most important design principles to avoid EMI problems and best measurement practices to find potential problems with a scope.

Presented by: Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow and Professor, ECEE Univ of Colorado, Boulder


Appendix A: 100+ PCB Design Guidelines to Minimize Signal Integrity Problems

This eBook contains 100+ PCB Design Guidelines to Minimize Signal Integrity Problems from Signal Integrity Evangelist and Teledyne LeCroy Fellow, Eric Bogatin.

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Signal and Power Integrity - Simplified, 3rd Edition
By Eric Bogatin

Published Jan 2, 2018 by Prentice Hall. Part of the Prentice Hall PTR Signal Integrity Library series.

EPSI

Essential Principles of SI (EPSI)
The one SI class every engineer should take. Leverage the essential principles to find the root cause of signal integrity problems like reflections on transmission lines, ground bounce and cross talk and fix them at their source.

AGCD

Advanced Gigabit Channel Design (AGCD)
Open your eyes by optimizing interconnect design and eliminate the pathological problems that will fail systems operating from 1 Gbps to 40 Gbps. Reduce losses, design transparent vias, eliminate mode conversion and tame cross talk.

SPSI

S-Parameters for SI (SPSI)
Unlock the wealth of information locked inside S-parameter measurements or simulations. Master the analysis of S-parameters and never be intimidated by them again.

SPSI

Video Recordings, Presentations and Webinars (VRPW)
A collection of presentations illustrating applications of the principles introduced in the core classes leveraging measurement, simulation and analysis tools.

SPSI

Practical S-parameter Measurement and Analysis (PSMA)
Unlock the power of S-parameters in this hands-on class using measurement and analysis tools. All S-parameter files and analysis tools are provided for download.

HSDD

High Speed Digital Design (HSDD)
These are the lectures from the graduate level signal Integrity class Dr. Eric Bogatin teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lab exercises included!

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