Shielding Design Flow Chart
The flow chart in Table 1 will assist the designer in selecting the appropriate shielding options necessary to meet their shielding and environmental requirements. The shielding requirement flow chart...
View ArticleAntenna Factor Calculations and Deviations
Introduction In recent years, the use of a term call “Antenna Factor” in EMC and spectrum pollution work has become very important. There has been a great need for measuring field intensity and/or...
View ArticleAn Easy Way to Calculate a Microwave Wavelength in Inches
A colleague, Mike Stasiowski, and I came up with this quick GHz wavelength formula while designing quad ridge circular polarized jamming antennas for the military when working at Nurad. The textbook...
View ArticleNavigating Signal Integrity in Chiplet Designs
As the semiconductor industry embraces the chiplet design approach, electrical engineers are witnessing a significant shift in how performance, cost efficiency, and scalability are achieved. While this...
View ArticleSkip-Layer Routing for High Bandwidth Channels
As we have seen from discussions on chiplets and their routing standards in substrates, many of the routing techniques used in PCBs also apply in packaging. Microstrip and stripline structures can both...
View ArticleRegulatory Lunch Break: Alphabet Soup
Over several decades, the FCC, the US Trade Representative, Department of Commerce (NIST) and the Industry (TCB Council, ACIL, Private Labs, including WLL) have been involved with opening up regulatory...
View ArticleIoT Systems with mmWave Sensors
One of the most common applications of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is sensing, followed by transmission of raw data back to a base station or server for storage and further analysis. The most...
View ArticleCubeSats Require Special ESD Handling Protocols for Launch Integrity — Part I
Figure 1: Tu-Pod in Space (Courtesy Amin Djamshidpour, Co-Founder Teton Aerospace) CubeSats are relatively inexpensive when compared to traditional vehicle-size satellites. Since their inception,...
View ArticleColumn | How to Accidentally Start a Career in EMC
“Dean can go to the lab.” I was walking out of my first job after graduating college, likely on my way to dinner or to watch a game somewhere. The office area where the engineering group sat at Two...
View ArticleFree eBook: From a Hod to an Odd EM Wave
A Remarkable Journey Through Engineering, Humanity, and History In From a Hod to an Odd EM Wave, David A. Weston invites readers into a vivid, deeply personal memoir that weaves together a lifetime of...
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