Dan, I like your idea of sharing the wealth of responsibilty. It allows the politician to become part of the the decision making process. (Allows may be too kind, forces may be a better word :) )
I have used this approach in several previous lives and found it really works. Sharing the decision process generally insures dBmargins with a larger delta are more palatible and new designs will almost always make the margin. I personally don't recommend anything less than 6 dB. Regards, Duane On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Dan Roman wrote: > Cynthia, > > I'd be tempted to say 0 dB if you are selling a complete system. I ask > for 5 dB with the products we sell here since they are components and > not a complete system (it's in our ISO procedures). If the product does > not meet the margin then it can still be released but requires a signed > statement by the product manager before it can be released that they > understand it has less than the company standard margin. Amazing how > much the threat of having them sign up for some responsibility has on > the EMI testing here! They actually take the margin seriously and are > very reluctant to let something go through with less. It's only > happened here once or twice and then it was only one frequency and only > a couple of dB. > > Maybe you should be looking at a political solution like this instead of > a purely technical one. > -- > Dan Roman | Work: [email protected] Fun: [email protected] > Compliance Engineer | Work Website: http://www.dialogic.com > Dialogic Corp, NJ | Homebrew is better brew! >
