Working with the Bode 100 - Articles & Use Cases

A selection of articles including Bode 100 measurements:

• ESR Requirements for Stable Regulators
  by Steven M. Sandler
  This article describes how the ESR of the output capacitor, required to achieve a desired phase margin can be determined by one sinple measurement.
  

• Eddy Current Testing
  by Lukas Heinzle, Student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  This document deals with the theory of Eddy Current testing and shows that the Bode 100 can be used to measure the impedance of probe coils.

• Measure Skin Effects
  by Lukas Heinzle, Student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  This document contains a theory of Skin effects and shows how to use the Bode 100 to measure the effective resistance of a wire.

• Debunking Transformer Performance Myths
  by Steven M. Sandler and Danny Chow, AEi Systems
  In their article the authors intend to dispel three common myths regarding transformers, and more generally, magnetic coupling.

• Simulation and Characterization of a Miniaturized Planar Coil
  by Florian Hämmerle, MSc
  The Master thesis focuses on simulating and characterizing a planar coil in order to
  further minimize it.

• Transformer Parameter Extraction
  by Steven M. Sandler and Danny Chow, AEi Systems
  This Article describes how the Bode 100 is used to extract the parameters of a flyback transformer in order to create a wideband SPICE model.

Example applications from our customers:

• System Concepts Lab Measurements
  The Bode 100 is used at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences to perform several measurements at the system concepts lab.

• Printed Circuit Coil Measurement
  A customer shows how he measures the equivalent circuit parameters of a printed circuit coil for RFID applications.

• Audio Amplifier Repair
  A customer repaired his 30 years old Revox A78 audio Amplifier and documented the performance of the device with the Bode 100 Vector Network Analyzer.

• Lesson preparation: Equivalent Circuit of Quartz Crystals
  by Christoph Büsel, HTL Rankweil
  The author is a teacher at a technical college and shared the preparation for a lesson on this topic with us. It shows how the Bode 100 can be used in academic education.

A selection of documents on the Bode 100 and its use:

• High Impedance Measurement
  This document shows how to extend the impdance measurement range of the Bode 100.

• B-WIT 100 SPICE Model
  This document contains a SPICE model of the B-WIT 100.

• S-Parameter Measurement
  A document explaining how to use the Bode 100 to measure S-Parameters of two port devices.

• Loop Gain Measurement
  The Bode 100 is the perfect choice to measure the closed loop gain of feedback loops. This document contains the theory of the voltage injection method.

• Short Delay Time
  This document contains some details about the Short Delay Time.