A Two Day Introduction to EMC Modeling Seminar by
Dr. Bruce Archambeault, IBM
EMI/EMC Computational Modeling for Real-World Engineering Problems
The world of EMI/EMC compliance has become much more important than ever before, due to the higher speed electronics in
lower cost packages. The ‘old ways’ of best-guess design practices, and then fix the EMI problems after the product is built is
not acceptable in today’s market place. Designs must be cost effective, and must pass regulatory requirements the first time
through the design cycle.
The old rules-of-thumb cannot be relied upon to ensure success. There is a new set of tools available to the EMI/EMC engineer,
which allows a more accurate estimation of the EMI/EMC effects of a system, before that system is ever built. While the
technology is not available today to completely analyze the entire system with a signal model, separate parts of the system can be
successfully modeled and accurate results be obtained.
This seminar provides a complete assessment of the various modeling techniques available today, and more importantly, provides
a number of detailed examples of how-to create models for a wide variety of disciplines. Radiated emissions, radiated
susceptibility and ESD are all discussed and demonstrated against real-world problems. Validation of modeling techniques and
modeling codes are discussed, as well as standard modeling problems to allow engineers a more complete evaluation against
potential vendor software packages. The seminar focuses heavily on practical, real-world problems, and provides the students
with the ability to begin to do EMC modeling and simulation on their own.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for:
-- Working EMI/EMC engineers who are interested in using the latest state-of-the-art tools to help meet product cost and
schedule requirements.
-- Working Signal Integrity and Design engineers who are interested in expanding the types of analysis tools they currently use to
include EMC simulations to help meet product cost and schedule requirements.
-- Managers and engineers who are interested in obtaining a better understanding of EMI/EMC computational modeling so they
can better evaluate which commercially available software tool would best suit their needs.
-- Developers of EMI/EMC simulations software who would like a clearer understanding of the real-world types of problems
facing their customers.
Objectives
Students will learn a basic understanding of all the popular EM full-wave modeling techniques, and when to use which technique.
More importantly, students will learn how to break real-world EMC problems into something that can be simulated with today’s
technology. Just as importantly, students will learn how to validate their models to insure the correct result.
Course Materials
All registered participants will receive a copy of all the transparencies used in the presentations and a copy of the book,
“EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook’, Second Edition, by B. Archambeault, O. Ramahi, C. Brench, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2001.
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