Questions tagged [analysis]
Questions attempting to analyze the mathematical properties of a formula, the inner workings of a protocol, or the design of a given circuit.
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Tolerance Stack Up Distribution
Suppose I've got a 2V source with 2% accuracy that I want to divide down to 1V using 5% resistors. One can easily see with Monte Carlo analysis that the worst case output voltage deviation is 7%
I'd ...
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Exercises for Practice of Network Analysis Circuits [closed]
can anyone recommend a good Exercise link/ebook or physical book that contains a thorough review of the different network analysis methods, ranging from easy to difficult exercises?
I need to practice ...
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How do I figure out what these ack signals mean?
I am trying to get the data from a rangefinder and an HT1621 LCD driver. I have set up a logic analyzer that uses an I2C analyzer. I am receiving all of these signals but frankly don't know where to ...
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Calculate inductance of a coil with an iron core inside
I want to calculate inductance of a coil with an iron core inside. The iron core is not vertically centered, but it is still aligned along the axis of the coil.
I know that FEMM softwares and ...
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What is a color bars vector diagram?
I'm reading the datasheet of the "AT7456E". This component is an OSD (so-called "on screen display") used on the flight controller of my drone project.
In the datasheet there was ...
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LTSPICE AC analysis problem
AC analysis dont work for second circuit. If i delete some transistors from 1-st circuit, it starts to work for second circuit.
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Stuck during designing a PI Controller
I'm trying to design a PI Controller on the basis of this paper: "Design of robust PI control systems based on sensitivity analysis and genetic algorithms." by Jau-Woei Perng • Shan-Chang ...
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Can someone explain what's a "Clearing Event"?
I'm working with a friend where he's trying to simulate a clearing event for 10uF capacitor. As of now, he's using a 10uF capacitor, a power supply running 48 volts, and a 40kohm 50Watt resistor. He ...
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Complex power and another from of complex power
I am a little confused with something, when we have complex power in a form S = U * I. There is also version of S = (1/2) * U * I. So I would like to know what is the difference between those two ...
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Need help to find Thevenin resistance and Thevenin voltage
Here is the question I am trying to solve(there are 2 things I need to find. These are Vth and Rth):
Here is my attempt: ( please check Vth if it is true )
I couldn't find Thevenin resistance at all
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Understanding Crystal Oscillator with 3 BJTs
I came across this oscillator circuit.
I can't figure out how it works. Ok, there is a differential pair Q1, Q3 with a tail resistor R4... Everything else is out of my comprehension (it doesn't ...
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Help to understand how work this halogen lamp power supply
I ask for your help for the following:
Understanding how this power supply works (how the 18kHz are generated).
The role of 100Hz.
How thermal and overload protection works.
How those protection are ...
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What could be the reason for an overheating Arduino? [using TWO different power supplies]
I'm tinkering a bit with a new printed circuit board I made and I already lost two boards (one ESP32 and one Arduino WiFi 1010) and I'm stumped because I don't even know where to start to look for a ...
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What is the purpose of the capacitor in this SMPS circuit?
Can anyone tell me the purpose of the 2n2 100V capacitor and its function in the circuit?
Image source: danyk.cz - 12V 5A switched power supply
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Synchronous buck converter designing issue
what I'm recently occupied with is trying to create a model and later build a synchronous buck converter. I've been doing some troubleshooting to try to resolve my issue, but honestly I just got stuck....
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DC Motor Difference Equation Digital Control System
This shows a DC motor drive with the voltage input.
And the discrete-time model is like this
The difference equation should be something like this:
Where the C_1T is the inverse laplace transform of ...
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How to calculate Bit Error Rate of an electronic equipment with several parts?
I am currently studying integrity of data into electronic systems facing Single Event Effects.
I am focusing on data integrity inside an electronic equipment.
I've been through a lot of papers ...
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Unsure where to start with AC circuit analysis (RLC)?
Here's what I do when I see a problem like this one below:
On the left side of the circuit I see resistors in parallel, I calculate 1/20 + 1/20 and then take the inverse. Then I add the 10 Ω resistor ...
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How can I DC analyze these values in netlist simulation
For my lab report I have to DC analyze a circuit for these specific VDD values.
Is there any way to get simulation output for just these values? Because when I write
.DC VDD 0.2V 10V 0.2V or .DC VDD 0....
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How does this circuit work? How can I analyse this circuit? 10 by 10 reaction game circuit
I built a project with the help of a breadboard diagram. Now I want to understand what this circuit does. How does this circuit work? I am looking for an analysis of this circuit diagram.
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Circuit Analysis: R3(Missing), Voltage(Missing) [closed]
This is a very simple circuit but I cannot solve it as I'm very slow in circuit analysis. Hence, I'd like to ask if someone can show me how to solve this one.
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Best way to transfer indication signal from one STM32 to another STM32 [closed]
This is the system:
I need a simple way to pass a signal from the upper controller to the lower controller.
The whole purpose is to read an analog voltage, sample it, make statistics, and transfer to ...
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Question about transient analysis in LTspice
Can anyone explain the function of these three options in transient analysis?
Stop simulating if steady state is detected
Step the load current source
Skip initial operating point solution
I was ...
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Is it possible to ignore Nyquist-Shannon theorem?
I have a case in which I have to find a frequency of wavering object with camera (some kind of visual odometry). There is a limitation: frequency of a filming camera (fps) should be at least twice ...
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How to verify noise modelling in fully differential op-amp Spice models?
Texas Instruments explains in one of their videos how to verify the noise model of op-amps in Tina-TI. T
For this, the op-amp is wired in a buffer configuration. A voltmeter (voltage pin) is placed at ...
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Series/Parallel Resistor Association
My question is very direct. I understand the definitions and formulas involved in the association of resistors in both series and parallel, but when solving the circuit below, I don't quite understand ...
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Will this mains disconnect circuit work?
The purpose of this circuit is to disconnect a home wiring from the grid when there is a power failure without having the power contactor coil working 24/7.
Where I live, when the power is restored ...
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Can you explain how this NDT ultrasonic transmitter circuit works?
I am simulating the circuit shown below. I do not understand how this works and how this will help in generating high voltage pulses for NDT ultrasonic testing.
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Conceptual understanding of phase power vs. line power
I am looking at two formulas:
P = √3 x VL x IL x Cos Ф
P = 3 x VPh x IPh x Cos Ф
Now assuming P here refers here to the total power. Could I take VPh and IPh and combine those terms as P (Phase)? Same ...
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Nodal Analysis of an Inverting Operational Amplifier
I am trying to derive the closed-loop gain of a basic Inverting Op-Amp circuit using nodal analysis and the model that includes its non-ideal parameters. The equation I derived is incorrect, and it's ...
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Confusion understanding a half adder implementation using 74153 MUX [closed]
As shown here, I have also highlighted the confusing part in the attached snapshot.
In the last line of truth table, I know that sum is equal to XOR of two inputs, but here in the last line of the ...
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Analysis circuit using Thevenin theorem
in the book "Engineering Circuit Analysis", example 5.9, i don't understand few things, hope someone can clear up for me:
Why does the dependent current can't flow through resistor 3k? If ...
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Design of power input protection on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX (dev kit)
When looking at the schematics of NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX developer kit, they use a P-channel MOSFET (AONR21357) before bringing power to a buck converter (TPS53015, not represented below). What is ...
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How to Calculate Voltage across R2 for any Value of R1, R2, and Frequency?
I know this is really simple, but I'm really new to electronics, so please bear with me.
CircuitLab said that the voltage across R2 was -14.24 dbV, given the component values shown and a source ...
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What is the difference between large signal model/analysis and dc model/analysis? [closed]
I am studying microelectronics. I have studied about the DC analysis and the AC analysis. The DC analysis is just to find the operating point or the quiescent point and then the AC analysis is done. ...
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Frequency domain analysis when sampling a switched (gated) integrator
I would like to use AC analysis (e.g. in spice) on a non-ideal op-amp integrator where the reset switch is open, and then apply a shaping function to the result of the AC simulation (in the frequency ...
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Effects of decreasing the field voltage of a synchronous machine
I am running a simulation of a synchronous machine in matlab and I have some behaviour I cant quite grasp my head around. The machine is running as a motor with only about 20% of its maximum load, ...
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Frequency dependent amplitude of a current source in an .AC analysis in LTspice
In my LTspice simulation I would like to integrate a current source in an .AC analysis which has an amplitude that varies over the simulated frequency spectrum, e.g. something like \$A(f) = {A_0 \cdot ...
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Phasor angle calculation
In this example, for Vo it first says it is lagging by -134.8 degrees, however when then calculating actual Iin, the angle for Vo becomes -138.4.
I'm wondering if -134.8 is a typo, and if it isn't; ...
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Importing LTSpice plot data in to Excel
Firstly, apologies as it is more of an Excel-LTSpice question than electronics.
I have a question regarding “cleaning” the data from LTSpice. I attached a small sample of data representing the gain ...
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Help solving circuit with Mesh Analysis and Current Source
I've been for some hours trying to solve this thing with Mesh Analysis but I don't seem to be able to understand how to do it! Could anyone please explain how I can do this?
Disclaimer: I've never ...
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Difference between KVL and mesh analysis
Are KVL and mesh analysis, the same? I am confused.
What is the characteristic difference between them?
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Voltage and current [duplicate]
It is proven only when there is a potential difference current flows in that branch between two nodes, then how we say that the current flows in a short circuit where the voltage on that branch is 0?
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AC analysis of voltage divider CE amplifier - how are non-parallel resistors treated as parallel?
The textbook I'm reading (Electronics for Guitarists by Denton J. Dailey) has this to say about the AC equivalent of the circuit:
The power supply voltage source VCC provides a low resistance path to
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Can FEMM be used to calculate real power of a PMSM at 50Hz frequency?
I am working with FEMM, for past few months and i have this doubt that can real power of a PMSM be calculated using FEMM at 50Hz frequency?..
Because at frequency higher than 0Hz the flux produced by ...
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Large signal model analysis of npn BJT
I have the following circuit and I am trying to find VB, VE, and VC, and consequently IB & IC. The "hints" I am given are (1) to assume that vs has a DC value of 0V, (2) to use the large-...
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Why do linear time varying system exhibit frequency conversion
I am trying to understand the theory behind spectreRF simulations. Specifically, PSS (periodic steady state) and PAC (periodic AC)
The following concept keeps getting mentioned
"After a PSS ...
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NEPLAN Load Flow Analysis with 1-day measurement
currently I am working on a project to identify energy loses in an electrical network. I am using NEPLAN 10, and already build a small system and implemented measurements. As soon as start the ...
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Analyzing effects of sixth order transfer function
This question is in relation to this question asked before (Settling time of sixth order denominator transfer function), but formulated in greater details.
So I have a transfer function which looks as ...
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Analysis of BJT RC Phase Shift Oscillator
I have designed an RC phase shift oscillator and it works in LT spice but i want to know if the analysis i have did on this circuit is correct or not. I want to calculate the "gain" as well ...
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