This article describes how Bode plots can be used as a tool to quickly assess if your power supply design will meet the requirements for dynamic control behaviour. Power supplies normally maintain a ...

It is not too often that a tool fails me. Most of the time I have made some mistake, so when a Bode Plot failed to predict an unstable system, I came down with a bad case of myopia. I spent so much ...

(Editor's Note: There are links to the previous parts of this series at the end, below the author's biography.) The first article in this series, published November 5, 2007 (link below) left a gain ...

These three analysis methods are linked together, so this section is organized by control method. In contrast to the large-signal transient response that was reviewed in part 2, we will perform ac ...

Download this article in .PDF format This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. Feedback systems have a wide range of applications including different types of amplifiers, signal ...

I am getting rather pissed off at Excel. I keep trying to make a Bode plot with the X-axis being 5 Cycle semi-log (just a log10 axis would be alright too) and the Y-axis linear. I cannot find an ...