Euro Engineer Keith
Armstrong to present EMC training courses
Compliance
with EMC (and other) standards is a regulatory requirement in most
countries including Australia
(C-tick), Europe (CE Marking) USA (FCC), Japan
(VCCI). Products must not be sold until compliance has
established.
Contractual
requirements and tender specifications often have extensive
requirements for EMC compliance. Failure to comply can
result in enormous costs due to delays and malfunctions not to
mention the loss of reputation and good will.
The
recent problems reported in the media about malfunctioning speed
detection cameras and Sydney's train systems highlights the
importance of proper EMC and high reliability design.
Euro-engineer
Keith Armstrong will be visiting Australia-New Zealand
February-April 2004 to present a series of EMC courses to industry
and the public, sponsored by EMC Technologies.
The
courses will be presented in each capital city around Australia,
plus Auckland and Christchurch, and will be presented in convenient
modules ranging from introductory to advanced level. They all use
plain English and simple mathematics to describe practical methods proven
to have great benefits for quickly achieving EMC at low cost. There will be an emphasis on emerging EMC and signal integrity design
challenges associated with the latest types of ICs and co-located
wireless data communications.
Keith
will also be a guest speaker at an IE Aust. EMC Society meeting where
he will be presenting a controversial paper on professional audio
systems showing how the use of modern EMC techniques can improve
functional performance whilst saving cost and time, challenging some
traditional pro-audio practices.
Course Outlines - (Detailed
course contents available on the brochure)
Designing
for EMC
[2 days]
This is
not your usual EMC design course!
While the basics are covered, it deals with the practical emission
and immunity design techniques required for good EMC
performance. A
practical grounding in the EMC techniques that technology
developments have made essential for time-to-market, compliance,
reliability and low warranty costs.
This
two-day module introduces the wide range of EMC techniques that all
electronic designers now need to employ to help their companies
compete globally. It is useful for newly-graduated designers as well
as a refresher and update for more experienced staff.
This is an updated version
of the course that
Keith teaches to post-graduate students on the Electronic
Instrumentation Systems MSc course at UMIST (University of
Manchester Institute of Science and Technology), U.K.
Relevant
for: All
electronic designers and their managers
Advanced
PCB design for EMC and Signal Integrity
[1 day]
This
full-day module has two parts – the EMC and signal integrity
techniques now needed for almost all cost-effective PCBs – and
advanced techniques which can be used to eliminate enclosure
shielding or improve the range of co-located radio communications,
but are generally required to achieve compliance for PCBs that use
advanced ICs (90nm, chip-scale, etc.), or powerful digital signal
processing.
Semiconductor technology advances make it essential to deal with EMC at PCB level
to achieve signal integrity, low cost, and to get to market quickly. These techniques….
•
Reduce size/cost by eliminating enclosure shielding
•
Reduce interference with wireless
datacomms
•
Are required for high-speed clocks,
high power DSP, to work at all
•
Allow use of the latest IC technologies
and/or chip scale packages
•
Reduce time to market and compliance
costs
Relevant
for: automotive,
medical, consumer, IT, aerospace and military.
EMC
techniques for electrical and mechanical design and assembly
[half
day]
Practical
assembly techniques using screws, spot welds, masking tape, etc.,
that get the best EMC performance from electrical/electronic
modules, wiring and metal structures are described by this half-day
module – reducing the costs of filters and shielding and making
compliance easier to achieve.
Relevant
for: Household
appliances, medical, all transportation, instrumentation, automation
and control, machinery, legal metrology – and all equipment with
two or more interconnected electrical/electronic modules.
EMC for
Functional Safety and High-Reliability Systems
[half day]
The
rapidly increasing use of advanced technologies in safety-related
and high-reliability applications makes it increasingly necessary to
use EMC design techniques which go beyond those required for EMC
compliance. The issue covered
by this half-day module is rapidly increasing in importance as more
advanced technologies are used in safety-related and
high-reliability systems. The
recent problems experienced by speed cameras and Sydney's train
systems highlights the importance of proper EMC and high reliability
design.
Unfortunately,
EMC test standards aren't suitable for safety or reliability; and
safety standards don’t cover EMC issues correctly. This module
helps meet the essential requirements of all EU safety Directives
whilst reducing exposure to general product liability claims.
Relevant
for: All
transportation, medical, domestic appliances, automation and
control, high-uptime systems (e.g. internet ‘hotels’), major
infrastructure projects, machinery and robotics, legal metrology.
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