Compliance includes more than just product safety and EMC. It may include software protocols or installation requirements unique to a fixed location or be country specific. Will reliability engineering become a subset of compliance or vice-versa? A small group of…
Many electronic products generate electromagnetic interference (EMI). Digital devices may emit undesired RF that could interfere with the operation of other electrical devices and systems located within close proximity. Mixed signal components (digital and analog) are both used on printed circuit…
Most of the time we only think about our daily work depending on what we do either academic research, teaching or applied engineering. Insufficient time is given to thinking about the future of engineering and society, especially products and services…
We attempt to ensure products comply with regulatory requirements, both safety and EMC. With regard to EMC, compliance engineers always seek an elusive 3 dB margin, yet if we are a few dBs over the specification limit does this mean the…
In the future, there will be a point to where the number of active and passive components that can be physically mounted onto a PCB will exceed the available real-estate of assembly. When this occurs the PCB must increase in…
