Sandler - Power Integrity: Measuring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting Power Related Parameters in Electronics Systems

About the Author

Steven M. Sandler has been involved in high reliability electronics for nearly 40 years. He is the author of numerous articles relating to power integrity and distributed systems. He is also the author of SMPS Simulation with SPICE 3, Switch-Mode Power Supply Simulation: Designing with SPICE 3, and the co-author of SPICE Circuit Handbook, all available from McGraw-Hill. Mr. Sandler lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife.

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This book is dedicated to my wife, Susan. She had the very difficult job of
keeping my stress level down and my outlook up. She sacrificed the many
hours I spent in my man cave making measurements rather than
spending time with her. When I (frequently) whined about how much
work writing this book was, she never said I told you so, but gave me
the pep talk I needed to keep me motivated. Sweetheart, I love you.

W riting this book was a major undertaking. Of course writing any book is a lot of work, but the vast range of instruments necessary to perform the measurements and finding ideal examples to measure stepped it up a bit. Many of the concepts in this book may be new and so the information had to be presented very clearly and concisely. This effort required a lot of support from many individuals and companies. Without this support, I would never have been able to complete this book. I also had a record number of peer reviewers for this book. I am forever grateful to the following individuals and companies and apologize profusely in the event I left anyone out.

I want to thank my editor, Michael McCabe, and all of the folks at McGraw-Hill for giving me the opportunity to write another book on a subject that has received little attention. A special thank you for allowing me luxury of presenting this book in color. Thanks to Kritika Kaushik, the project manager for the book. She had the difficult job of making this book happen.

Thanks to my long term friend and business partner, Charles Hymowitz, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Picotest, and CEO of AEi Systems. He read every page, edited, commented, and offered many helpful suggestions to make this a better book. Thank you does not seem to cover it, but thanks.

Bernhard Baumgartner, Florian Hmmerle, and Wolfgang Schenk of OMICRON Lab for their constant support, for including the noninvasive measurement in their instrument and for being great friends in addition to sales partners. Thanks for the support and the many helpful comments and suggestions.

Mark Roberts, Stacy Hoffacker, Mike Mende, Amy Higgins, and Tom Lenihan from Tektronix were always ready and willing to help, whether it was to discuss equipment, answer questions, or arrange the shipment of loaner instruments to and from my lab. They also offered some comments and suggestions.

David Tanaka, Yasuhiro Mori, Eileen Meenan, and Hiroshi Kanda from Agilent Technologies for the tremendous knowledge they possess regarding their instruments and their willingness to share some of it with me. I also thank them for arranging the shipment of loaner instruments in and out of my lab.

Dan Burtraw, David Rishavy, and Mike Schnecker from Rohde-Schwarz for arranging the loan of their RTO1044 oscilloscope, for answering the many questions I asked, and for providing helpful comments and suggestions helping to make this a better book.

Bob Hahnke, Steve Murphy, Stephen Mueller, and Kathleen Woods from Teledyne Lecroy for their support of demo equipment and for the helpful comments they provided.

Hawk Shang of PICOTEST Corp for his generous support of our projects, for making excellent general purpose test equipment, and for manufacturing the Picotest signal injectors. Hawk, thank you for all that you do.