In this keynote presentation, Patrick will draw upon his 38 years of experience working in Electromagnetic Capability to share lessons learned and mistakes made. Working as a troubleshooter of EMI, he’s learned to be suspicious of the statement that “nothing has changed.” He will also discuss issues which tend to cause the most problems at the test stage; when in the heat of testing, it pays to be a skeptic!

Emcware is a comprehensive EMC test software package for radiated susceptibility, conducted immunity, radiated emissions, and conducted emissions. This powerful software package contains pre-defined test profiles for hundreds of the most commonly performed test standards and test levels to allow the test engineer to quickly setup and execute EMC testing. With the recently-released emcware 6.0, multitone immunity testing functionality is now available, reducing test time by up to 50%. With multitone, multiple frequencies are tested simultaneously, reducing test time and increasing lab throughput. In this product demo, emcware 6.0 will be presented. From populating the Equipment List, selecting and setting up a test, to executing a test and report generation. Additional focus will be given to the multitone capability, demonstrating set-up and execution of a multitone test.

Simulating electromagnetic compliance (EMC) can save weeks of time and tens of thousands of dollars in product development time and budget. However, design teams are challenged by the large scale of such simulations, so many default to the time-consuming process of building physical prototypes and performing initial testing in the lab and test chamber. Design teams need practical simulation technology capable of consuming large amounts of data and returning accurate results in a reasonable time period that enables design optimization in real time rather than rely on building and debugging physical prototypes. This paper will discuss how 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technology combined with a massively parallel architecture allows multiple GPUs to provide rapid simulation turnaround time, enabling design flows that accelerate EMC and ensure sufficient immunity to outside interference. A case study of a vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) will be presented that showcases this technology.

Logarithms, sliding scales, unit conversions, and some trigonometry. The EMC industry requires lots of math, and some of it we haven’t seen since high school.  This webinar presentation will help viewers understand where the equations come from, understand quick unit conversions, and help viewers understand how a dB is always a dB.

PMM next Generation ER Series Receivers provide best in class performance, easily outperforming receivers costing multiple of times more in speed and bandwidth when performing CISPR 16-1-1 Full Compliant testing. Now, purchasing an EMI receiver to perform in-house compliance testing doesn’t break the bank.

Escalating frequencies pose daunting design engineering obstacles. Design leaders must mitigate rampant waste energy. They often must do so by fitting EMI solutions within compact, ever-smaller device spaces. What happens when a single device design can contain three, four, five or more emission sources? The EMI headaches worsen significantly. In his talk, Laird’s Christophe Loret provides not only a refresher on absorber fundamentals, challenges and current solutions but an expert forecast on future trends in EMI absorption at higher frequencies. He will review absorber basics and how free space, cavity resonance and near field absorbers function. Christophe will explain how each absorber differs according to the specific EMI issue which must be addressed – and resolved.