noise lecture

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John Larkin

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I'm giving my kids a little lecture on noise this afternoon. Here's my
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Noise In Electronics Notes

JL Feb 25, 2019


Conductors, atoms, electrons

Johnson/Nyquist noise
Ej = sqrt(4KTRB) RMS
Power, voltage, current
Flat finite spectrum
CoE
Equivalent thermal conductivity
The sky is cold

Shot noise
Is = sqrt(2qI) RMS
Not in metallic conductors, maybe in cermets/carbon
In semi junctions, base currents, photodiode currents
Worse in PMTs and APDs
PMTs as radar jammers

Excess noise
1/f flicker
grain boundaries
pentode grid partition
tempco driven

Thermal noises
Resistor tempco
Air flow turbulance
Thermoelectrics

Piezo noise, mostly caps

Magnetic loop pickup

Opamps
Voltage and current noise
PSRR
RF rectification

Bipolar transistors
Rb

Jfets

CMOS
Popcorn noise

Fans
Vibration
Mag fields
E fields from blades
power supply ripple

RF
Junction rectification
Digital logic spikes
TV, cell phones Sutro tower
Fluorescent lights, motor controllers

PSRR
Can be worse than 0 dB
Watch DC, too

IC photo sensitivity chip-scale stuff

Ground loops
Many goofy theories about grounds and shielding
Differential is best

Zeners and noise diodes

Gas discharge devices
Noise tubes in magnetic fields
Neons in waveguides

Noise figure meters

Noise makes jitter


Spice
No noise analysis in time domain
Can cheat

PCB layout


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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 

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