Steve Sandler

Steve Sandler

Steve Sandler

Steve Sandler has been involved with power-system engineering for over 40 years. He is the founder of Picotest.com, a company specializing in instruments and accessories for high-performance power- and distributed-system testing. He frequently lectures and leads workshops internationally on the topics of power integrity and distributed power-system design and is a Keysight Certified EDA expert.

Steve publishes articles and books related to power-supply and power-distribution-network (‘PDN’) performance. His latest book, co-authored with Anto K. Davis, is called Power Integrity Using ADS. Other books from Steve include Switched-Mode Power Supply Simulation with SPICE and Power Integrity: Measuring, Optimizing and Troubleshooting Power-Related Parameters in Electronics Systems.

He's the recipient of DesignCon and EDICON Best Paper Awards and the Jim Williams ACE Contributor of the Year Award presented by Linear Technology co-founder, Bob Dobkin. He's also a two-time Test & Measurement Test Engineer of the Year Finalist.

Steve helps engineers around the world to architect, design, troubleshoot, and optimize advanced power-delivery networks. In his prominent position, he's exposed to some of the world’s toughest design challenges.

He's very generous in sharing his time, opinions, and expert knowledge with those who are willing to learn. Over time and based on his experience with solving hard problems, his Picotest has created unique adapters, cables, probes, injectors, isolators, amplifiers, modulators, software, and training materials

Steve was the founder of AEi Systems, a well-established leader in worst-case circuit analysis, modeling, and troubleshooting of satellite and other high-reliability systems.

Areas of interest of the author: Supply Power Measurement

Co-authors: Charles Hymowitz

Publications on RadioLocman by the author Steve Sandler:

  1. Use A Signal Analyzer To Measure Power Supply, Regulator, and Reference Noise
    Instead of your trusty old oscilloscope, try using a spectrum analyzer to measure the noise sources that degrade ADC performance Noise from the power supply, linear regulators, and voltage references is a major contributor to the limitations of system performance, especially...
    May 24, 2013