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Explore how to grow your professional network and strengthen your engineering skillset.

Fire Prevention

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

Are You RED-dy?

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...)

To Avoid Problems, Work as Slow as Possible

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.

Tao Bao and the Internet of Things

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).

Fire Enclosures

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

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.

Use The Eye Diagram to Check Your Connections

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

Electrically-Caused Fire

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).

Symbol-Only Safety Label Formats Gain New Ground

This month in our series exploring the latest industry insight on effective product safety label design and symbol usage, we’ll focus on the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) approval of symbol-only safety labels.

Transients in Secondary Circuits

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