EMC-Safety Compliance & Design Courses
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland
October 27 – November 28, 2008
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Since 2000 Keith Armstrong’s EMC courses in Australia and New Zealand have become very popular indeed. Each year’s courses represent the state-of-the-art for that year and feedback from each year’s delegates is used to improve the next year’s courses – so 2008 should be the best yet!
This year we will not be presenting the course on European Directives, because not much has changed in that area since our 2007 courses. Instead, we are responding to the huge demand from the very many companies involved in automotive and medical industries by providing completely new material on developments in EMC that affect them directly.
Preliminary Agenda
Those who have attended Keith’s courses in previous years know that his very practical training material produces immediate results in reducing design and development costs, making legal compliance easier (C-tick, CE, FCC, VCCI etc.), improving time-to-market, improving product functional performance, reducing warranty costs, pleasing customers and increasing future sales and reducing a number of financial risks. Keith’s courses are aimed totally at helping companies enjoy greater financial success whilst using more advanced and complex electronic technologies in their products.
Budget to attend them now, and/or send your colleagues on them!
Keith Armstrong is a well known author and expert in cost-effective EMC and safety management and design. He is a practicing EMC/Compliance engineer and Chairman of IEE Working Group on EMC and Functional Safety. Keith is an articulate and lively presenter and received excellent reviews after his previous visits to Australia. He has an international reputation as an EMC engineer who is constantly seeking to improve EMC practices to save time and cost and improve competitiveness.
Detailed agenda
Monday morning
Automotive EMC testing
- Automotive tests and their developments
(material provided by Ayhan Gunsaya, Ford Motor Company EMC expert, details to follow)
- A risk-based approach to EMC for automotive safety
Monday afternoon
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Medical EMC – the future 4th Edition of IEC 60601-1-2
- Brief review of the 2nd and 3rd Editions of IEC 60601-1-2
ISO 14971, the medical risk standard, and the 3rd Edition of IEC 60601-1
- Why the 4th Edition of 60601-1-2 will be split in two parts: performance and safety
- Towards the new performance requirements in IEC 60601-1-2
- Towards the new risk-based safety requirements in IEC 60601-1-2
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Tuesday and Wednesday
Designing for EMC Compliance
- What EMI can occur, how it can affect hardware and software 1hr
- Saving time and money by using good EMC practices 15 min
- Digital design for EMC
Analogue design for EMC
- Switch-mode power conversion design for EMC
- Communications design for EMC 1 hr
- Choice of components for EMC 1 hr
- EMC techniques for cables and connectors 1 hr
- EMC filtering 1 hr
- EMC shielding (DC to many GHz) 1 hr
- EMC techniques for heatsinks 30 min
- Suppressing surge transients 45 min
- Suppressing electrostatic discharge (ESD) 45 min
- Suppressing electromechanical devices 30 min
- Integrating wireless devices (transmitters and receivers) in products 1.5 hr
- Close-field probing techniques for every project stage 1.5 hr
- Some useful references
Based on feedback from previous courses, last year’s material dealing with mains harmonics, flicker, and immunity to power quality have been omitted this year and replaced with new topics: heatsinks, wireless integration and close-field probing. And the material on PCB EMC techniques has also been omitted this year, because they are covered in Thursday’s course.
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Thursday
Basic & Advanced PCB design for EMC & signal integrity
Basic PCB techniques
- These design techniques save time and money overall
- Segregation
- Interface analysis, filtering, and suppression
- 0V and power planes
- PCB-chassis bonding
- Power supply decoupling
- Transmission line techniques
- Layer stacking
- Some useful references and sources
Advanced PCB techniques
- When do we need to use advanced PCB techniques?
- Silicon trends and their implications
- Rules of thumb, approximations, simulations
- Virtual design for SI and EMC
Advanced segregation
- PCB-level shielding up to GHz
- Advanced interface filtering and suppression
- Advanced PCB-chassis bonding
- Advanced planes
- The totally shielded PCB assembly
- Advanced decoupling
- Buried capacitance
- Advanced transmission lines
- Differential transmission lines up to 10Gb/s
- Advanced layer stacking Microvia (high density interconnect) PCB technology
- Some final tricks
- Some useful contacts, sources, references
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Friday
Designing for Safety of Electrical Products, and for LVD Compliance
- What do we mean by safe enough?
- Doing hazards analysis and risk assessments
- Taking EMI into account in risk assessments
- Non-CE marking safety directives
- Complying with the Low Voltage Directive
- New EMF requirements
- Using the most relevant safety standards
- Single-fault safety
Electrical shock hazards
- Energy hazards
- Fire hazards
- Heat related hazards
- Mechanical hazards
- Other hazards
- Choosing and using components
- Wiring, supply and construction
- Markings and manuals
- Type testing (testing the design)
- Routine tests in serial manufacture
- Special national conditions
- Good safety engineering techniques not yet standardised
- Design and test for functional safety
- EMC for functional safety
- Some safety resources
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Further information: www.emctech.com.au or contact us by phone, fax or email:
EMC Technologies Pty Ltd
Tel: +61 3 9365 1000
Fax: +61 3 9331 7455
denise@emctech.com.au
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