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Testing pulse drain current of a MOSFET

What's a good rig to test the pulse drain current of a MOSFET? I'm thinking using a gate driver very abruptly raise the \$V_{GS}\$ from 0 to the \$V_{GS\_max}\$ for the same period in time as in the ...
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Testing Power Supply Variac-Rectifier-Cap

I have built a power supply with the following order. Variac-Full Wave Bridge Rectifier-Capacitor. I get the input from the wall. I connected neutral and line to the rectifier. Not using the ground. ...
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How to test a crystal resonator in board?

I have 2 quartz crystal resonators in my pcb board: 32.768 kHz & 20 MHz. They are connected to a Freescale MC12311 transceiver IC, which has an HCS08 micro-controller embedded in it. I want to ...
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Debugging I2C bus using an oscilloscope

Is it possible to debug an I2C bus effectivaly with a two channel (plus an external trigger) oscilloscope? I've been trying to do it, to catch a single transaction starting from the start until the ...
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Generic Active Probes

I need an active probe for use with a spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope. My scope has contacts around the BNC connector for powering a compatible probe. The spectrum analyzer is a different story. ...
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