About the Training Course

Proper EMC design for printed circuit boards (PCB) can make a significant difference in the final product's performance in the EMC measurement laboratory. Implementing the proper EMC practices during the design phase of the product is critical and can have little or no impact on the product cost when done correctly.

Unfortunately, EMC design is considered to be similar to magic. This EMC training course focuses on the basic causes of EMC problems, and how to overcome these problems. This training course is not just a list of "rules or thumb" but rather it helps the student understand why EMC problems happen, and what can be done to eliminate them.

The primary focus of this seminar is to help working engineers understand the causes of EMC problems so this knowledge can be applied to real world product design immediately. Formulas and equations are not required and are minimized throughout the seminar. Understanding the causes of EMC problems will allow engineers to make difficult design trade-off decisions!

All delegates receive a copy of Dr Bruce Archambeault's book "Printed Circuit Board Design for Real-World EMI Control" (Kluwer)

Who is this training course for?

• Working Board Design engineers and layout engineers who are interested in better understanding the causes of EMC problems, and how to overcome these problems during the design phase without adding cost to the PCB.
• Working EMI/EMC engineers who are interested in achieving a better understanding of the causes of EMC at the PCB level, and how to control these signals.
• Managers and engineers who are interested in obtaining a better understanding of EMI/EMC design so that they can help make better trade-off decisions and provide proper emphasis to EMC design issues.

Training Course Content

Introduction to General EMC
Why do we need to meet EMC Standards? Examples of EMC related problems

Review of Basic Electromagnetic Principles
What is a 'dB'? Time and frequency domains; Wavelength vs frequency; bits-per-second vs Hertz; Boundary conditions; Skin depth.

Antennas
Simple dipole and monopole antennas; Near field and far field; All conductors as antennas; What causes radiation?

About the Lecturer

Dr. Bruce Archambeault, Ph D., MSEE., MIEEE,
EMI Enterprises, USA.

Dr. Bruce Archambeault received his B.S.E.E degree in 1977 and his M.S.E.E degree in 1981. He received his Ph. D. in 1997. His doctoral research was in the area of computational electromagnetics applied to real-world EMC problems. In 1981 he joined DEC and he had assignments ranging from EMC/TEMPEST product design and testing to developing computational electromagnetic EMC-related software tools. In 1994 he joined SETH Corporation where he continued to develop computational electromagnetic EMC-related software tools and used them as a consulting engineer. He recently joined IBM in Raleigh, N.C. where he is a Senior member of Technical Staff, and a lead EMC engineer, responsible for EMC tool development and use. During his career in the U.S. Air Force he was responsible for in-house communications security and TEMPEST/EMC related research and development projects
Dr. Archambeault has authored or co-authored a number of papers in computational electromagnetics. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors on the IEEE EMC Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is the author of the book titled "PCB Design for Real-World EMI Control" and the lead author of the book titled "EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook". Dr. Archambeault is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society.