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EMC Design Reviews: Some Lessons from Our Design Review Career (to date!)

One of our favorite EMC sayings is “an ounce of prevention is worth a...

EMC Design in the IC Environment with Respect to ESD and Burst

Today's integrated circuits (IC) are very sensitive to disturbances. Fast pulses which were not...

Melexis Highly Integrated EOL Programmable Hall Sensor Supports Direct Connection into Automotive/Industrial Designs without Need for PCB or Discrete Components

Melexis Technologies NV has followed up the success of its initial MLX92242 Hall effect...

Cable and Pipe Seal Maker Roxtec sees UK Sales Surge

Greater Manchester-based Roxtec is reporting a 45 percent growth from its UK operation with...

Using EMC Tools to Help Designs Pass the First Time

1408 F1 cover This is a true story. When I first joined IBM as an EMC engineer, my new manager handed me a document titled ‘EMC Design Process at IBM’ and asked me to comment. I quickly read the short document that basically said that the EMC engineer would provide the design engineers a list of EMC rules, which would be largely ignored.