February 2015 Archives - In Compliance Magazine

Chair Measurements of Electrostatic Fields and ESD Events in Proximity to a Static Control Safe Workstation

Characterizing Chairs for Use with Static Control Safe Workstations A long standing debate exists within the electrostatic discharge (ESD) control community regarding the use of an ANSI/ESD S1.1-2013 wrist str... Read More...

New CCC Regulations in China

Recent Changes Promises to Streamline the Certification Process The Chinese government is implementing a series of reforms in various industries, including the process of certifying product for sale there. The... Read More...

Advances in Data Transmission Speeds for RJ45 Jack Connectors

Traditional Connectors and Their Application Throughout the Industry are Changing for the Better For many decades, RJ45 jack connectors have been used for low-cost, high volume applications throughout industri... Read More...

CISPR 11: An Historical and Evolutionary Review

Editor’s Note—This article was originally published in 2010 in In Compliance Magazine, and has been updated to include recent progress on the development of Edition 6.0 of CISPR 11. CISPR is the International ... Read More...

EMI and Signal Integrity: How to Address Both in PCB Design

Let’s do a comparison of EMI (electromagnetic interference) design and signal integrity. EMI focuses on the associated specifications and testing requirements and interference between neighboring equipment. Sig... Read More...

The View from the Chalkboard

This month’s edition can best be titled “If I knew then what I know now”! Normally I use this space to present topics that I feel are important items in EMC education. This past semester was interesting because... Read More...

The Pitfalls of Pass/Fail Testing

You’re at your desk when the phone rings. It’s one of your production lines; they’re having failures with a part or a test that is critical to the safety of the product. They’ve shut down the line. You drop eve... 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...