Expert Insights

Patrick Andre looks at the potential risks of personal electronic devices interfering with aircraft systems and the efforts by industry groups to address this issue.

There is one important skill to develop, over and above all others, that makes life much easier, sets you on a path toward success, and increases your status as a true compliance professional.

Electricity meters and other similar devices have their own set of unique standards and requirements.

Let's use the basic tools and spectrum analyzer setup described in the last two months and use them to characterize an actual embedded processor board based on the Arduino design.

The authors evaluate the impact of capacitors and trace length on conducted emissions.

The ESDA technology roadmap is written to support and guide the daily work of ESD and latch-up experts in the worldwide industry and academia.

ANSI Z535.6 is a standard developed by ANSI specifically focusing on the inclusion of safety information in product manuals and other related materials to enhance user understanding and safety.

Patrick Andre looks at the history and development of DO-160, “Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment.”

There are many properties of antennas used to describe their performance. The antenna factor is most useful to those performing electric field radiated emissions measurements.

If pre-compliance activities are good for discovering EMC design weaknesses early in product development, why not apply the same thought process to product safety?