Design

The automotive industry and individual automobile manufacturers must meet a variety of EMC requirements.

Old glass bottles get a chance at a second life with this new technology that turns them into batteries.

An incredibly small chip is changing the way we look at power and speed in many of our most used devices.

Consider a two-sided PCB with a single trace on top and full copper ground plane on the bottom.

Tests and manufacturing results have proven that some static dissipative materials can still produce significant and possibly damaging discharge currents.

Transported lithium-based batteries are divided into two types: lithium-ion found in mobile phones and laptops, and non-rechargeable lithium-metal used in medical devices and a number of consumer grade AA, AAA and 9V batteries.

Compliance testing can be a very expensive endeavor and also a very confusing one. And when it comes to lithium ion cells and batteries, the expense is magnified by the number of samples needed for testing.

Software tools can give the EMC engineer a better chance to pass EMC requirements the first time.

When two circuits are in the vicinity of one another, a signal propagating in one circuit can induce a signal in another circuit, due to capacitive (electric field) and/or inductive (magnetic field) coupling between the circuits. This phenomenon is referred to as crosstalk.

Lithium batteries have been a staple of life for quite some time. However, their...