Webinar: Python Automation of Measurement and Multi-Dimensional Plotting of DC and AC Bias Sensitivity of MLCCs

Presenters: Istvan Novak & Ethan Ostroff Ceramic capacitors are extensively used both in PI for bypassing and in SI for DC blocking on high-speed channels. With shrinking capacitor sizes, the resulting loss of capacitance and loss changes of ceramic capacitors due to the applied DC and AC excitation are becoming more pronounced and we need multi-dimensional data to capture these effects. This talk will describe the measurement setup and python automation that can automatically sweep along multiple parameters and allows us the parse and display the data along various axes. Actual measured data will be shown for both series DC blocking and parallel bypass topologies.