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        Basics of DC bias effects and derating of multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC). Acquiring impedance vs frequency curves for DC-biased ceramic capacitors via the two-port shunt-through measurement technique.
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">02:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Interactive Designs</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">02:28</span><span class="chapters-text">MLCC Basics</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">04:52</span><span class="chapters-text">Derating Basics</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">06:41</span><span class="chapters-text">Issues with Derating</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:23</span><span class="chapters-text">Mitigation</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">10:27</span><span class="chapters-text">2-Port Shunt-Thru Measurement</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">12:01</span><span class="chapters-text">DC Block & Bias Injector</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">14:30</span><span class="chapters-text">Test Board</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">15:28</span><span class="chapters-text">Measurement Set-Up</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">16:50</span><span class="chapters-text">Bode Analyzer Software Set-Up</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">18:36</span><span class="chapters-text">Test Capacitor</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">19:27</span><span class="chapters-text">0V DC Bias</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">20:52</span><span class="chapters-text">4V DC Bias</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">23:12</span><span class="chapters-text">12V DC Bias</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">25:06</span><span class="chapters-text">Outro</span></li>
            
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjEmwmAI27U&ab_channel=Phil%E2%80%99sLab">2-Port Shunt-Through Measurements</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3r5XI8FBY&ab_channel=Phil%E2%80%99sLab">Capacitor Measurement and Modelling</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUruN6WBgSw&ab_channel=Phil%E2%80%99sLab">Capacitor Hardware Design Basics</a></li>
            
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/mixed-signal-hardware-design-with-kicad">Mixed-signal Hardware Design course</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL courses</a></li>
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Ceramic Capacitor DC Bias Effects & Measurement - Phil's Lab #152

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        Walking through one of the top PCB factories in China.
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What is this video about</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:16</span><span class="chapters-text">Preparing panel</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">01:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Drilling</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">03:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroless plating</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">04:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Cleaning</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">06:04</span><span class="chapters-text">Photosensitive layer</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:54</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplating</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">10:29</span><span class="chapters-text">Etching</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">12:36</span><span class="chapters-text">Solder mask</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">14:21</span><span class="chapters-text">Silkscreen</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">15:08</span><span class="chapters-text">PCB Testing</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">16:06</span><span class="chapters-text">Milling</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">16:37</span><span class="chapters-text">Inspection and packaging</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">17:39</span><span class="chapters-text">Making a multilayer PCB</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">20:04</span><span class="chapters-text">Baking PCBs</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">22:23</span><span class="chapters-text">X-Ray and alignment</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">23:28</span><span class="chapters-text">SMT Board assembly</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">26:30</span><span class="chapters-text">Through hole soldering</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">28:45</span><span class="chapters-text">Thank you for watching</span></li>
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Factory Tour in China - How PCB Is Made | PCBWay

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        Talking to a chip designer. Thank you very much Atchi Reddy Chavva
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What is this video about</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:46</span><span class="chapters-text">About Atchi</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">02:53</span><span class="chapters-text">What is inside of a chip</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">11:28</span><span class="chapters-text">JTAG, testing, software on chip</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">19:39</span><span class="chapters-text">What is on silicon and what are the challenges</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">32:34</span><span class="chapters-text">How transistors look and how they are connected</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">47:07</span><span class="chapters-text">Operating conditions</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">53:06</span><span class="chapters-text">ESD</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:04:38</span><span class="chapters-text">Designing a chip (example)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:17:05</span><span class="chapters-text">Autorouting</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:35:58</span><span class="chapters-text">Moore's Law</span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/atchireddy-chavva-23726a7/">Atchi's LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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What is Inside of Integrated Circuits? How Are Chips Designed?

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        The best animation to explain crosstalk I have ever seen! Thank you Eric.
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                <span class="chapters-time">00:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Have You Ever Had Problems with Crosstalk</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">04:58</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Crosstalk through Electric Fields</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">05:17</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Current through a Capacitor</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">06:52</span><span class="chapters-text">Changing Electric Field</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">07:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Displacement Current</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">10:33</span><span class="chapters-text">Reference Plane</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">11:38</span><span class="chapters-text">What About Two Layer Pcb</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">14:42</span><span class="chapters-text">Electrically Long Interconnect</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">19:18</span><span class="chapters-text">Flash Animation</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">19:48</span><span class="chapters-text">Capacity Coupled Current</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">22:43</span><span class="chapters-text">The Coupling Region</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">26:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Inductive Coupling</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">27:46</span><span class="chapters-text">The Direction of the Induced Current Loop</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">30:32</span><span class="chapters-text">Inductively Coupled Current</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">46:34</span><span class="chapters-text">Ratio the Foreign Crosstalk Coefficient</span>
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What Every PCB Designer Should Know – Crosstalk Explained (with Eric Bogatin)

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        Do you know why PCB Manufacturer may use tin to protect tracks and VIAs when your PCB is manufactured? Do you know how exactly PCB VIA plating is done?
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                <span class="chapters-time">00:03</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">02:36</span><span class="chapters-text">How a Pcb Is Manufactured</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">04:25</span><span class="chapters-text">Remove the Drill Smear</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">06:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Electro Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">06:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Electro Less Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">07:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroless Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">08:04</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Copper To Stick to Fiberglass</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">09:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Micro Etch</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">12:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Silver Has a Higher Redox Potential than Tin</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">19:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Board after Electroless Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">20:27</span><span class="chapters-text">Electron Lighting and Electroplating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">23:43</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">28:40</span><span class="chapters-text">Protect the Copper inside the via Barrels during Etching</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">29:57</span><span class="chapters-text">Copper Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">30:41</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplating Tin</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">33:18</span><span class="chapters-text">Bad Plating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">36:29</span><span class="chapters-text">Chemicals That Are Added to the Electroless Bath</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">42:33</span><span class="chapters-text">The Electroplating</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">46:35</span><span class="chapters-text">Bare Bones Pcbs</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">59:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplated Gold</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">1:03:20</span><span class="chapters-text">Microvias Edge Plating and Castellated Holes</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaileyshara/">Kailey Shara LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.4pcb.com/media/presentation-how-to-build-pcb.pdf">Advanced Circuits PDF</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV0icM_Ujo&ab_channel=Eurocircuits">Eurocircuits - how to make a 4-layer PCB (full version)</a></li>
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How Does Copper Get Inside of a VIA Hole in Your PCB – Do you know this? (with Kailey Shara)

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        What is the most important thing for you when selecting chips for your boards?
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