If you have a PC. This is for a very low cost industrial gauging system. I agree in general about the appearance. That's mostly because it's a Franken board (TM)--I did the fast stuff and ChesterW did the rest, then he came up here and we bolted the head to the body.
It didn't do "Putting on the Ritz" with Gene Wilder, but it works like the bomb.
I already have one with the swoopy gooseneck handpiece and all, but thanks. ;)
I've posted photos of my usual proto style recently. I use protos the way you do, to try out new ways of misusing parts or things I'm not sure will work. Other times, of which this was one, I build whole proof-of-concept instruments like that.
Normal dead-bug rocks for that--it's many times faster than perf board (as well as less flaky) and has similar performance to a ground-plane PCB.
On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:25:17 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
1 / 120E-12 = 8333333333.333333 ;-)
OK, up, stay up, down, sort of thing you mean?
I have done those SMD flying in air at 1.5 GHz, but it is very fragile. There is no reason not to prototype on some veroboard, or other low loss material, works just as well.
There's not much gold on an ENIG PCB, something like 10 microinches over electroless nickel.
Every year or two I have one of our PCB houses make me a couple of square feet of gold plated FR4. They charge us $100 a square foot, which sounds pretty arbitrary to me.
Gold leaf is cheap, around $12 a square foot.
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Besides the cost, I wonder about skin effect. I don't know the thickness of the nickel coat, and the skin depth at low GHz is likely to be deeper than the gold coating. So you are in two films that have less conductivity than copper.
But you need something to protect the bare copper against fingerprints and corrosion.
I'd think of coating the bare copper with a thin coat of Krylon Clear Spray. Apparently you can solder right through it. This would be a lot cheaper than gold, and may give better grounding.
Of course, you chop up the copper with a dremel, so grounding is not so much of an issue. But you can use Manhattan style using small circular plugs from a pcb hole punch. A 1/4" dia 0.032 copperclad will have about
1/2 pf capacitance, which will have little effect below 10GHz. This will keep the conductivity of a clean sheet of copper, and you don't have to worry about trying to map the ground currents in an arbitrary shape of copper.
On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:16:44 GMT) it happened Steve Wilson wrote in :
Interesting. If something happens in 120 ps, then it seems to me there must be a 8.3 GHz component generated? Say something keeps happening every 120 ps, then the frequency is 8.3 GHz, a spectral line appears. How do you arrive at .35 ??
That still doesn't tell you where the 0.35 comes from. Why is it 0.35, and not 0.55 or some other number?
Also, the environment is assumed to be an analog circuit with LCR components that give critically damped, Gaussian, or 1st order RC responses. You can plot the frequency response of the circuit and look at the rolloff. You can even do it in LTspice.
There was an old HP application note that gave the derivation for the 0.35 constant. That was many years ago, and I don't know if it is still available or how to search for it.
It is not clear how this applies to a digital circuit with the risetime determined by semiconductor switching time. How do you plot the frequency response?
So we are taking a rule-of-thumb equation far from its roots, and calling it good.
On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:49:53 GMT) it happened Steve Wilson wrote in :
Yes, if you look closer, and say 'rise time' is from 10 % to 90 %, then the actually 'event' is much much longer than 120 ps. Nevertheless, in the fast rising part, say for example, from 40 % to 60 %, there surely IS a 8.3 GHz component. He basically says: it is a low-pass, and the 8.3 GHz is attenuated enough to be ignored.
That is a specific case, and not always true, you can have this:
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