Radius High Speed Lines

2003-05-05 Thread Locke, Darrell
EMC Colleagues Has anyone had experience with using radius or rounding on high speed traces as opposed to chamfered 45 degree corners? Is there any real benefit for 1-5 nS rise time clock? I don’t think there is but maybe some may have other views. Thanks Darrell Locke Advanced

RE: ELF (E and H) survey equipment

2003-05-05 Thread Price, Ed
-Original Message- From: John Harrington [mailto:jharring...@f2labs.com] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:44 AM To: 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' Subject: ELF (E and H) survey equipment Does anyone know where I might be able to rent (and failing that purchase) some E and H field survey

RE: Vicor Power Supply Surge Immunity--- More testing...

2003-05-05 Thread Cole, Bryan [LBRT/CCC]
Chris, Most MOVs are rated as 'Y' components. The manufacturer should be able to point you towards the appropriate agency information. You should also be concerned about the overvoltage affects of MOVs. Without some sort of thermal protection these devices can be very destructive. But, you

Re: ESD Gun verification

2003-05-05 Thread hansm
I can probably shed some light into this subject as I am the original designer of the Pelligrini target.In 1978/1979 I designed the coaxial target for waveform verification as our client, Dave Reynolds of Digital Equipment Corp., insisted on certain waveform adherence from our company

ESD gun verification

2003-05-05 Thread Jim Ericson
John: I faced the same problem about six years ago. I needed to do verification in between the expensive annual calibrations. I first explored the option of buying a Pelligrini Target. As I recall, the quotes I received were around $2000. That seemed outrageous, so I decided to build one

Re: ESD gun verification

2003-05-05 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Jim Ericson jde...@nas.com wrote (in 004001c31052$499e9c40$83663fce@pavilion) about 'ESD gun verification' on Thu, 1 May 2003: Be aware how important the POSITION of the ESD Gun Grounding Strap is to these measurements ... especially to risetime measurements. I always

Vicor Power Supply Surge Immunity--- More testing...

2003-05-05 Thread Chris Maxwell
All, It seems that I could possibly pass the testing with a suppression device between Line and Chassis (probably from Neutral to chassis as well). Some experiments with TVS diodes that I have on hand have been promising. However, the diodes can't stand up to the multiple surges. i.e. I get

Re: ESD gun verification

2003-05-05 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that John Harrington jharring...@f2labs.com wrote (in 5777c7d14a69d411be4200a0cc746898493...@exchange.f2labs.com) about 'ESD gun verification' on Thu, 1 May 2003: Does any one have a quick and dirty (and hopefully cheap) way to verify the performance of an ESD gun. It's a

ESD Gun targets

2003-05-05 Thread drcuthbert
Jim, the Pelligrini Target spec in EN61000-4-2 is quite a challenge to meet. The 1 dB insertion loss delta from DC to 4 GHz to be exact. The simulation of my proposed PCB design shows that it can meet the spec and I have the equipment to verify this. I will build a few targets. Perhaps a few of

Re: ESD failure

2003-05-05 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Ravinder Ajmani ajm...@us.ibm.com wrote (in of3726dba3.c9d3514a-on88256d19.007dd66b-88256d19.00802...@us.ibm.com) about 'ESD failure' on Thu, 1 May 2003: Any suggestions on what I should I try next. A grounded shield over the ASIC? It's being zapped by radiated energy,

Theremal Resistance vs Thermal Impedance ...

2003-05-05 Thread C N
There's plenty of references on the web. Here's one from Berquist. Best let you read it than me putting my own spin on it. http://www.bergquistcompany.com/tm_thermal_prop.cfm Regards, Doug McKean _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail

TSB31-B: Any updates to the FCC Part 68 guidelines?

2003-05-05 Thread Georgerian, Richard
RE: Greetings All, Does someone in the group have an idea if the document TSB31-B (February 1998 Issue), Part 68 Rationale and Measurement Guidelines, will be updated to cross reference to the TIA standard, TIA-968-A, Technical Requirements of Terminal Equipment of the Telephone Network? Since

ESD Gun verification

2003-05-05 Thread Jim Ericson
John: I faced the same problem about six years ago. I needed to do verification in between the expensive annual calibrations. I first explored the option of buying a Pelligrini Target. As I recall, the quotes I received were around $2000. That seemed outrageous, so I decided to build one

RE: D of C again

2003-05-05 Thread Wagner, John P (John)
Quite the opposite. Compliance testing can only be done on the final production model. This obviously places compliance testing at the end of the pipeline. It is questionable, to say the least, to issue a DOC prior to final testing, so the DOC is not available till after final compliance

ESD troubles

2003-05-05 Thread Jim Ericson
Hi Ravinder! Really need more details to comment in detail. Consider the following, though: 1.Contact Discharge to the Horizontal Coupling Plane produces a large bloom of (mainly H-Field) radiation underneath the EUT. Could be on the order of 200 Volts/metre, depending on the spacing.

ELF (E and H) survey equipment

2003-05-05 Thread John Harrington
Does anyone know where I might be able to rent (and failing that purchase) some E and H field survey eqipment? I need it to range from sub 1Hz to 10kHz, to read E and H fields separately, and to be portable. Thanks John Harrington EMC Technical Manager F-Squared Laboratories This message is