Design for EMC Training

Commitment 3 days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

The goal of this three-day Design for EMC Training course is to prepare electronics design and systems personnel with the necessary information to identify, design, and fix EMC (and many closely related Signal Integrity) design problems.  This Design for EMC Training course addresses emissions, ESD, RFI, power, and self-compatibility.  It focuses on components, Printed Circuit Boards, power electronics, grounding, and shielding and includes over 35 practical design EMC fixes.

We consider SI a special case of EMC, and while the design techniques are often the same, the levels can be vastly different. SI deals with millivolt/milliamp levels. – EMC often deals with microvolt/microamp levels. While not an in-depth class on Signal Integrity, this class covers some important basics of SI.

The Design for EMC class is taught by an expert in the field in a practical problem/solution format with minimal math and theory.  It is about design rather than regulations or testing, emphasizing common interference and signal problems faced by the designers of today’s high-speed digital and mixed digital/analog circuits and systems.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Design for EMC Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • You will learn tools, tips, and techniques from a full-time practitioner, whose only business is solving and preventing EMC and related signal integrity problems. He has prevented or solved hundreds of EMI problems for clients in a wide range of industries. He has co-authored three books on EMC and over 200 technical articles.
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this Design for EMC Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Design for EMC course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Design for EMC course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policymaker), and present the Design for EMC course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this EMI/EMC in Military Systems course:

  • Electronics, mechanical and systems engineers and technicians, EMC personnel and technical managers could all benefit. No prior EMC knowledge is needed.
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Design for EMC Training course are:

  • No prior EMC knowledge is needed.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Introduction

  • Interference Sources, Paths, and Receptors
  • Key Threats in EMC and SI
  • EMI Regulations & Impact on Design
  • Signal Integrity and EMC
  • Looking for “Hidden Transmitters” and “Hidden Antennas”

Frequency, Time, and Dimensions Dealing with “Hidden Schematics”

  • Transmission Lines and “Hidden Antennas”
  • Common Mode & Differential Mode

Components

  • Passive Components and Their Limitations
  • EMC Effects in Active Components
  • Simple EMC Filters and How to Design Them
  • Clock and Reset Circuits
  • On-Board Power Regulators

General PCB Issues

  • Identifying Critical Circuits
  • Component Placement
  • PCB Stack-up Recommendations
  • Isolated or “Split” Planes
  • I/O Treatments
  • Circuit Board Grounding
  • Power Decoupling
  • Buried Capacitance
  • Trace Routing and Terminations
  • Crosstalk

Power Electronics

  • Power Quality and EMI
  • Filters & Transient Protection
  • Switch Mode Power Supply Design for EMC

Grounding

  • Function of a Ground
  • Safety and EMI
  • Single Point, Multi Point, and Hybrid Grounds
  • Ground Loops
  • Signal Grounds
  • Analog Grounds
  • EMC Grounding Guidelines

Shielding

  • Materials & Limitations
  • Dealing with Openings and Penetrations
  • Magnetic Field Shielding Issues
  • Cable Grounding
  • Cable Shielding & Connectors
  • Cable Crosstalk
  • EMC Shielding Design Guidelines

Appendices with checklists

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