Past Columns

The best solution to fire - any fire - is to prevent fire in the first place.

Come next summer, there’s a new song playing in Europe and if you want to tune in your radio products, you’ll have to go RED. June 12, 2017 is the magic date. (Reader caution: If you’re just getting into this topic, be ready for a barrage of acronyms...)

You can minimize your EMI/EMC and SI/PI problems by working as slow as possible. This is very well known advice from many experts, books, and seminars: you can minimize or solve electromagnetic interference (emissions/susceptibility) and signal or power integrity problems working as slow as possible.

The explosion of these delivery services, coupled with the growth of online mega-retailer “Tao Bao,” is another manifestation of the pervasive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT).

In our last issue, I discussed heating, pyrolysis, and combustion processes necessary for a...

A million volts and 25 thousand amps are generated during a typical lightning strike. The phenomenology of nature’s oldest EMI Beast is quite fascinating, notably the physics that govern the discharge as it approaches the ground.

Discover the eye diagram, a very useful visual tool to analyze the quality of your connections in digital and high frequency applications.

Probably the single most frequently occurring and most misunderstood issue in electronic product safety is electrically-caused fire. I thought I would review fire processes in plastics materials (the most common flammable construction material in electronic products).

Richard Nute examines how transformers behave when subjected to transient overvoltage, both magnetically and capacitively.

Sometimes a ferrite is used to remove ringing in some applications as in power electronics or digital circuits.