Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

PREFACE

Chapter 1: INSIDER’S GUIDE TO MIXED SIGNAL TEST

1.1 What Is Mixed Signal?

1.2 Some Terminology

1.3 What Is a Mixed Signal Device?

1.4 What Isn’t Mixed Signal?

1.5 Example of Mixed Signal Devices

1.6 Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)

1.7 Comparing Logic Test and Mixed Signal Test

1.8 More about the Signal Source

1.9 Mixed Signal Test System—Signal Capture

1.10 Mixed Signal Test System—Signal Analysis

Chapter 2: MIXED SIGNAL TEST MEASUREMENTS AND PARAMETERS

Example

2.1 Signal Analysis Categories

2.2 Units of Measurement

2.3 Decibel Calculations

2.4 Signal Analysis and Test Methods

Chapter 3: SIGNAL GENERATION

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Signal Source Hardware

3.3 Application Example

3.4 Signal Data Sets

3.5 Periodic Sample Sets

3.6 Creating the Signal Data Set

3.7 DSP’s Law

3.8 Samples per Cycle

3.9 The Golden Ratio

3.10 Application of DSP’s Law

3.11 Sine (X) over X

3.12 Source Filters

3.13 Source Filter Optimization

Chapter 4: SIGNAL CAPTURE

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Digital Signal Capture Hardware

4.3 Analog Signal Capture Hardware

4.4 The Digitizing Process

4.5 Nyquist and Shannon—Theoretical Limits

4.6 Sampling Rate and the Frequency Domain

4.7 Capturing Periodic Sample Sets

4.8 Signal Averaging

4.9 Capturing Unique Data Points

Chapter 5: FREQUENCY DOMAIN TESTING AND THE FFT

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Fourier Series

5.3 Representing Signal Data

5.4 The Inverse Fourier Transform

5.5 The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

5.6 Interpreting Frequency Domain Data

5.7 Minimizing Frequency Domain Anomalies

5.8 Signal Aliasing

Chapter 6: DSP BASED TESTING

6.1 Introduction

6.2 DSP Algorithm Structure

6.3 Math Operations

6.4 Data Type Conversions

6.5 Signal Analysis Algorithms

6.6 DSP Measurement Applications

6.7 FFT Algorithms

6.8 Harmonic Distortion Test Sequence

Chapter 7: TESTING DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS

7.1 Introduction

7.2 DAC Overview

7.3 DC Test Overview

7.4 Linearity Test Overview

7.5 AC Test Overview

7.6 Dynamic Performance Tests

Chapter 8: TESTING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS

8.1 Introduction

8.2 ADC Overview

8.3 DC Test Overview

8.4 Linearity Test Overview

8.5 Missing Codes

8.6 The Histogram Test Method

8.7 AC Test Overview

Chapter 9: TEST CIRCUIT DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

9.1 Printed Circuit Board Physics

9.2 Resistor Physics

9.3 Capacitor Physics

9.4 Circuit Board Insulators and Guard Rings

9.5 Test Circuit Ground

9.6 Power Distribution

9.7 Transmission Lines

9.8 Transmission Line Matching

GLOSSARY

INDEX