All, There will be a joint Northeast Product Safety Society and EMC Society meeting on Wednesday, October 22, at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center at 42 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 6:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:00 PM. We have two technical presentations this month with one predominately EMC related and the other product safety related. The first technical presentation will start at 7 PM with an expected 45 minute duration followed by a brief Q & A time. Our second technical presentation will start around 8 PM or immediately after any questions for our first speaker. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS or EMCS membership or advanced notice is not required.
Our first speaker, Dr. Cheung-Wei Lam, is a Senior Engineer at Apple Computer. Dr. Lam will present trade-offs and guidelines for signal integrity design versus radiated emission control. For engineers responsible for both disciplines, an in-depth understanding of the similarities and differences between the two is even more important. In this presentation, key signal integrity and EMC concepts will be reviewed. Design considerations in the two disciplines will be compared and contrasted at the chip and PCB levels. Dr. Lam is engaged in IC, PC board and system level EMC R&D at Apple Computer and has implemented an EMC design and analysis process at Apple to facilitate on-time compliance at lower cost. Prior to joining Apple, he was a co-founder and Principal Engineer of Transcendent Design Technology and worked in Viewlogic's Advanced Development Group (formerly Quad Design Technology). During his years in the EDA industry, he has played key roles in the design and development of EMC, signal integrity and ground bounce analysis software tools. Dr. Lam received his B.S. degree in electronics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his S.M. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He has served on the IEEE EMC/S TC-9 Computational EMC committee and the SAE EMC Modeling Task Force committee. He has given numerous papers, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and training courses on various EMC and signal integrity topics in the US, Europe and Japan. He was a co-recipient of the best paper award at the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on EMC. In 2002, he was appointed to serve as an IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer and is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Our second speaker, Mr. Timo Venalainen, is the Technical Manager of Electronic Products at CSA-International. Mr. Venalainen will present an overview of new requirements in IEC 60065-7th edition, and a progress report on the TC 108 work under way on the Hazard-Based Standard. Since the New Hazard-based Standard will replace both 60950 and 60065, this topic will be of particular interest to anyone involved with product safety certifications. Mr. Venalainen has been involved with certification of audio video products at CSA for 31 years. He has been a Senior Engineer for over 18 years. Mr. Venalainen is a member of IEC TC 108 committee and working on the maintenance of IEC 60065. He is also assisting in the writing of the new Hazard-Based Standard to cover IT and AV Equipment. The 2002 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS2003Calendar.htm. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links at http://www.nepss.org/secretary/officers03rev3.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the first traffic light as the traffic light at the off ramp >from Route 495 South. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). EMC Corporation is the second driveway on the right. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax matthew.campane...@motorola.com email This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: emc_p...@symbol.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
