Because It’s All About the Current
The paper discusses the importance of understanding the current distribution below a printed circuit board trace.
Impact of MRAs on the Electronics Industry
This article is an update of a previous piece that was published in the In Compliance Magazine Reality Engineering column in March 2015. At the time, the FCC Rules (FCC 14-208) had been issued but not adopted i... Read More...
Where is all of this Wireless Stuff Coming From?
Walking out the door on any given weekday, heading to work, means making sure my collection of radios is either on my person or in my backpack. Let’s see, phone (four radios in there), laptop (two radios), tabl... Read More...
Happy Birthday, National Broadband Plan!
Blow out the candles, already! The recent auction of Advanced Wireless Spectrum raised $41 Big Ones (that’s $41E9) for the US Treasury. Now, spectrum is a little like real estate and as Will Rogers once said: “... Read More...
On Sorghum, Poisson Clumping and Meatloaf
This month’s Reality Engineering takes a stab at circumstance. As engineers we are creatures of prediction and expected outcomes. Sometimes things happen that occur outside the norm.
What’s in a Grain?
Consi... Read More...
The Effect of the FCC’s New Rules on Testing Laboratories
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) ended 2014 with an overhaul of its Rules for device testing and certification. While everyone was getting ready to pop the champagne, the Commission released its long-... Read More...
The Reality of Engineering a Symposium
As far as I can tell, the first Symposium was described on papyrus by Plato, ca. 400 BC. The first order of the day was to decide how the event would go.
Socrates and Aristophanes were drinking together at Aga... Read More...
On Symbology: This “AND” That and the King Named Cat
Most readers of this magazine can speak aloud the title of this piece, "On Symbology: This That and the King Named Cat," though they may not know who the Cat King is. The pattern of lines and curves between “T... Read More...
Testing for 5G?
This issue of In Compliance magazine presents the annual ode to Test Equipment. In that vein, this month’s Reality Engineering shares a brief perspective on that topic.
Early ESD
Our very first piece of test ... Read More...
Follow Your Nose
Olfactory nerves lie at the top of your nasal passages and their associated axons wind their way through holes in your skull to a spot just below the cerebellum. The business-end of these cells are covered with... Read More...