Recent content by Jody

Meshing is always a really tricky issue. It would be difficult even if you called an application engineer for help on it. What you typically want to look for: Anything with like sharp acute angles or self-intersection; also really long narrow lines can be tricky to mesh mostly because it tries...

I did almost only research positions before working in industry a lot of it in nanotechnology and material sciences. I became an RF engineer in aerospace & defense and later a Signal and Power Integrity Engineer for a consumer electronics companies. The experience mattered the most and the...

I wouldn't suggest this as an accurate way unless you really put a lot into your own code, but I wanted to share maybe a crude fast way if you know roughly which shapes you are looking for you can use mathematical morphology on a tool like matlab or (free) imagej. On MATLAB i'll use something...

Why put all of your eggs into one basket? I would just consider both if they appear interesting to you. If both come back to you with a "yes" then you can think about which one you like more later :)

Oh, my suggestion wont work if you're trying to decrease the capacitance :( I think the earlier suggestions sound better you might want to consider those instead. I recommend you share the application or maybe some of the schematic, or both. It might help with suggestions.

What's the application? Is it just a test board that you can muck around with. Can you achieve your goals with added capacitance? I'm really bad, but I've done on it test boards... it's a lot easier to just stack some caps on there to add capacitance if that's an option you can consider. I'm...

I would imagine plotting magnitude of impedance Z would be a valuable learning experience :) what does L and C do at the resonant frequency, and impedance should you see when that happens? If you had time and wanted to explore, then I would put another pair of these in parallel to it with a...

What's your background? Will this be your first time doing circuit analysis? Sedra/Smith is very popular I've seen it on almost everybody's shelf (at least within my circle), but it doesn't seem too great for introductory circuit analysis. The book I started with was Introduction to Electric...

You're in the home-stretch. Almost there! Your notation for this stuff is very strange by the way, but I can see in the equation you discriminate between ZL and Zload. Most people don't do the notation that way. They'll probably prefer the way that I have it above. They usually use Z0 in...

This part is super important for your question. Lets take a step back and look at a transmission line I'll call ZL2, which has a characteristic impedance Z2, an arbitrary length L, and its load is ZL. What are some things I can do to make its impedance stay the same for different values of L...

I just wanted to share this because I think some posters and future readers might find this of interest even though I think the question has already been answered very well. I personally think for a graphing problem, that this circuit is intuitive even for an introductory circuit course...

I recommend to any (California) community college readers to visit ASSIST.org. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but it worked for me. It's been a long while since I've done that, and so I don't know if there has been any (big) changes or added caveats, but it looks about the same to me...

I definitely agree with the TDR.

I missed out on one because some careful eyes caught my birthday on one of my transcripts, and it wasn’t me :( I didn’t know they put my birthday on there and I never noticed it before lol. It couldn’t hurt to ask, but I would consider the opportunity as a no go and look for other paths or...

Something else that worked for me is I called the application engineers and asked if I could get a trial license. They one upped me and offered to do a trial + training a small group of people on the team. They sold it for me and I got to learn a few things.