Board Design and Layout

Design

Signal Channels

Front End

Filtering

Analog filter design On Line

 LC Filter Design Tony Fisher / fisher@minster.york.ac.uk
 

Chip Center Tools

 Online calculators, simulators and wizards for the electronics design engineer
 

Filter Software

Analog

MicroChip

 FilterLab® Active Filter Design Software
 "Building a Programmable Low Pass Filter using a Digital Potentiometer and the FilterLab® Active Filter Design Tool"

Digital

Jeffrey D. Taft, PhD. has some real stuff here!
Papers:
DSP Design Performance

38 Freely Usable Digital Filter Design Applets plus DSP Tutorials and Code Segments
 

"One way to do this is to put together several cascaded second order sections and adjust the group delay of each section until the composite group delay (which is the sum of all those individual sections) forms the curve which provides the correction you're trying to achieve.
Article on cascaded sections: Using a Second-order Digital Filter to Compensate for Group Delays
Online Java applet at Dr. Jeffrey Taft's site. Each second order section can be implemented as a biquad section - Here

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: A clever application of IFFT

A/D conversion

Tools from Analog Devices
 ADI - Interactive Design Tools
 Aliasing Suppression 
 

High Speed Design

Stripline techniques
 EDN on Signal Integrity: Articles
 EDN Access--04.24.97 Design tools for analog/mixed-signal ICs
 07.16.98  Board-level signal-integrity analysis: Sooner is better
 
 

Some Tools

WinLAP linear simulator from Denmark.
This free linear circuit simulator is perfect for the rapid simulation of
circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors, op amps,
transformers and voltage and current sources. Requires Windows
3.x, 95, 98, NT or 2000. File size 249KB.Download now.

RFSim99 linear simulator from the UK.
RFSim99 is a linear S-parameter based circuit simulator offering
schematic capture, simulation, 1 port and 2 port S-parameter display
and file support, tolerance analysis, stability circles, and much more.
Requires Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000. File size 2045KB.  Download now.

Digital Filter Synthesis
FilterExpress™ is Systolix's professional digital filter synthesis tool. Version 5.0 is
available for FREE, just click on the link below.
                 Download the latest version of FilterExpress here:  fexp0500.exe (2.04MB)
 

 Free Java Javascript Animated Gifs HTML CGI - Adeveloper.com
 http://www.planetanalog.com/

Software at DigitalFilter.com

The Quantizer Handy! dec-hex-bin
 DSP Design Performance 38 Freely Usable Digital Filter Design Applets plus DSP Tutorials and Code Segments

 WinSpice Web Page This SEEMS like a great package but no specs are shown no info on file/schematic import/export

 Tunekit2 Filter Program
Filter Tuning Kit for Windows is a electronic filter synthesis program and a practical filter tuning aid for actually designing and building a working filter

Ensemble SV is a feature-limited version of Ansoft's commercially distributed Ensemble 7.0. It is a field solver based on the Method of Moments (MoM) simulation engine. It is intended for electrical engineering students studying topics in RF and wireless circuits and planar antennas. Ansoft offers this version of Ensemble to foster and encourage the development of engineering skills throughout the high-frequency design community. Board Layout Aids
 Download Ensemble SV now! (~30 MB)

 Trace Width Calculator v1.2

 PCB Trace Width Calculator on the Web
 
 

FPGA Stuff

DSP in FPGA  I'm pissed! I had a link to dsp in fpga IIR etc filtors and I can't find it!
Found this ... still looking!

 DSP on FPGA Information at KU

example paper
FPGA Implementation of Digital Filters
Chi-Jui Chou, Satish Mohanakrishnan, and Joseph B. Evans
 Proc. 1993 Int. Conf. Signal Proc. Appl. & Tech.
     PostScript PDF


Contribution from Atmel
Document Title:
       FPGA Digital Filter (FIR24S) - Application Note
   http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc0834.pdf

More adobe stuff
 A Coarse- Grained FPGA Architecture for High- Performance FIR Filtering

PDF Abstract: FPGA Implementation of Median Filter
 

Analog

Chips

 AKM Semiconductor Inc  24-bit stereo A/D converter, which achieves a typical dynamic range of 116 dB and an SNR of 105 dB

 Linear Technology's LTC1067 universal-filter building-block  IC consists of a pair of identical second-order filter sections

 Micro Linear Corp For filtering digital video waveforms after they pass through their reconstruction DACs

 Apex Microelectronics power SIP package that you can through-hole or surface mount and that dissipates as much as 100W with less than 1 in.2 of board space

Circuits

Design Ideas from Electronic Design Magazine  Ideas for Design

TDR

Several interesting circuits  including a circuit for a phaselock digital synthesizer with less than 4nS jitter