Past Columns

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

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. But many times this strategy is ignored. Why is this idea so important?

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...)

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 single lightning strike triggered a chain of signaling failures that sent two high speed trains hurtling toward each other in Wenzhou, China, killing 40 people. This Reality Engineering feature examines how EMI from a thunderstorm exposed critical gaps in fail safe rail safety systems.

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).

Could your signal integrity solution be causing the problem? Ferrites typically eliminate ringing, but when improperly selected, they create the very oscillations they're meant to suppress. The secret lies in understanding impedance characteristics—choose wrong, and your clean digital signal transforms into an unwanted rollercoaster.RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

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