Resources

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).

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.

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.

Even in the arcane world of Conformity Assessment, surprises are afoot.

The leakage current measuring circuits in IEC 950 and those in North America are exactly the same.

When designing an EMI/EMC filter the orientation relative to source and victim is critical for high effectiveness. Can you save components in your filters?

Want to troubleshoot electronic circuits better? Arturo Mediano says it's all about being able to "see" what's going wrong. The key is looking at your signals in both time and frequency domains, and using the right tools - from basic voltage probes to fancy near-field scanners - to spot and fix those pesky EMI problems.

Ever contemplated becoming a consultant? Living free of the corporate bureaucracy? Collecting those big fees? Traveling the world? But how does one get started anyway?

According to statistics from the WiFi Alliance, 12 billion WiFi-enabled products have been deployed since the year 2000. Another 3 billion are expected to ship in 2016 alone, with device deployments doubling by 2020 (3 million every day).