3RD GLOBAL SIGNAL INTEGRITY AND POWER INTEGRITY (SIPI) UNIVERSITY

The Organizing Committee of the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal & Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI) is planning to offer a high-quality, educational event encompassing Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI): the Global Signal Integrity and Power Integrity University.

Similar to the Clayton R. Paul Global EMC University that is held annually during the International Symposium, the intent is to offer two full days of lectures (Tuesday afternoon, all day Wednesday, and Thursday morning) carefully curated to cover basic and advanced concepts of SI & PI during the symposium week. SI & PI are gaining ever-growing attention due to the higher data rates and larger currents in modern high-speed digital systems. Industry requires skilled engineers with a background in these two disciplines to address the increasing complexity and challenges of electronic system design.

The IEEE EMC Society therefore decided to offer again – after the first two successful editions at the Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona (2024) and Raleigh, North Carolina (2025) – two full days of courses during the EMC+SIPI Symposium 2026 to bridge this gap. The mission of the Global SIPI University will be to give students, technicians, and engineers the opportunity to acquire SI & PI skills directly from experienced and well-known instructors from both industry and academia.

The program offers both lectures and practical demonstrations. The intent is to expand the discussion on the background concepts and to provide a more detailed presentation of advanced methods for addressing the current design challenges. Moreover, the demos will encompass the use of instruments typically employed for analysis, measurement and troubleshooting for signal and power integrity.