FYI for those of you in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. If you would like to be added to a future e-mail list to receive monthly meeting announcements, please send an e-mail to me at: [email protected] ______________________________________ >IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society >Topic: PCB Problems with SI and EMI and the Tools to Help Solve Them > >Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998; Meal 6:00 P.M., Program 7:00 P.M.. > >Place: HP Convex, 3000 Waterview Parkway, Richardson (see map at >http://www.hp.com/rsn/hpsd_map.html ) (note that this location will be for the September meeting only) > >Speaker: Mr. Jeff McSpadden, Jr., Field Application Engineer, Automated >Circuit Design > >Program Summary: Mr. McSpadden will discuss some of the different problem >with PCB design that will cause signal integrity (SI) and electromagnetic >interference (EMI) problems. He will also compare two of the tools, >Hyperlynx and XTK, typically used in PCB design to reduce SI and EMI >problems. > >Mr. McSpadden received his BSEE from the University at Austin, 1968, Worked >as Design Engineer, Project Manager, and Program Manager of Technology at >Control Data. Technology was mainly Semiconductor technology. 22 years with >CDC. 1990 to 1996 - Manager of Tools and Systems for Tandem Computers in >Austin. Also generated ATPG vectors for ASIC ranging from 200k to 500K >gates. Two years with Automated Circuit Design (ACD) as Field Application >Engineer, supporting Engineering tools. > ____________________________________
>Topic: Truckers, Fat Ladies, and EMI at the Gas Pump (A Discourse)-with a >short sequel > >Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998; Meal 6:00 P.M., Program 7:00 P.M.. > >Place: Hewlett Packard, 930 E. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX Speaker: Mr. Bill Ritenour, EMC Consultant, Distinguished Lecturer IEEE >EMC Society > Program Summary: This definitely non-politically correct but mildly humorous discourse on Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) effects in a present day filling station details three electromagnetic interference problems that Herman-a greatly put-upon gas pump-encounters during a typical workday. The problems range from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) due to a generously proportioned human sliding out of a car on a cold day, to RF interference from a 500 watt illegal CB mounted on a large commercial conveyance, and finally to an electrically "abrupt" large induction motor operating in an adjacent car wash. The discourse reviews the basic electromagnetic concepts associated with the various (true) events; explains how each electromagnetic effect causes electronic upsets (halts) within poor Herman; and outlines the mitigation techniques used to eliminate each effect. At the conclusion of the discourse an extraordinary but non-lethal-and true-electromagnetic event is described that provides Herman a humorous revenge on the humans who had plagued him during the day. [Since the creation of the talk in 1992, a more sinister side of Herman has manifested itself and will also be outlined in a short sequel.] The time allotted for the talk should be 35 to 45 minutes depending on questions. Thurman (Bill) Ritenour received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas (Austin) in 1963 and worked in the Aerospace Industry until 1980, principally in Power Supply design, Electronic Counter-Measures and Radio Navigation. Since 1980 Mr. Ritenour has specialized in Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and in early 1996 established his own consulting company EMC Compliance, L.L.C. in Boulder, Colorado. Over the past eighteen years his practice has extended over a wide range of equipment; from industrial process control systems to small computer peripherals; to medical systems; to large scale information storage and retrieval systems; to nuclear reactor process control systems, to telephone switching systems, as well as many other families of electronic equipment. In addition, Mr. Ritenour has taught EMC courses in US, Europe, Canada, and Australia and has served or is serving on several ANSI committees: ESD (one of the co-authors of C63.16, ANSI ESD Test Guideline released in 1993), Medical EMC and others; serves as the liaison between the ESD Association and the IEEE EMC Society; serves on the IEEE EMC Society Standards Committee, served on the IEEE EMC Society's Board of Directors (1994-97), and has been designated as an EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer (1997-1999). Mr. Ritenour has written articles on EMC topics in various symposia records and periodicals. ________________________________ Future Meetings: >Date; Speaker; Topic; Location > >November 17, 1998; Dr. Jose Perini, EMC-S Distinguished Lecturer; topic tbd; >HP Richardson > >December tbd, 1998; Social Meeting; tbd > >January 19, 1999; Mr. Carl Irby, Bell Helicopter-Textron; "EMC and Integrated >Wiring Systems"; HP Richardson > >February 16, 1999; Mr. Timothy L. Trower, Raytheon; "Aircraft EMC", with >Tour; Raytheon Greenville > >March 16, 1999; tbd; HP Richardson > >April 20, 1999; Mr. Donald R. Bush, dBi Corporation, EMC-S Distinguished >Lecturer; "Spread-Spectrum Clock Techniques"; HP Richardson > >May 18, 1999; Mr. Robert W. Dockey, Hewlett-Packard Company, EMC-S Distinguished Lecturer; "EMI Measurement by Substitution (correcting for >noise-induced error)"; HP Richardson >________________________________________________ > >Mark E. Bushnell >1997-99 Chairman, Dallas/Fort-Worth chapter IEEE EMC Society >Reply To: [email protected] >Raytheon Systems Company >Majors Field, FM 1570 >P.O. Box 6056, CBN 024 >Greenville, TX 75403-6056 >Tel. 903.457.6375 Fax 903.457.7640 >This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons. >________________________________________________
