EMC training courses

Euro-engineer Keith Armstrong will be visiting Australia-New Zealand February-April 2004 to present a series of EMC courses to industry and the public, sponsored by EMC Technologies.

The courses will be presented in each capital city around Australia, plus Auckland and Christchurch, and will be presented in modules ranging from introductory to advanced level. They all use plain English and simple maths to describe practical methods for achieving EMC at low cost. There will be an emphasis on emerging EMC and signal integrity design challenges associated with the latest types of ICs and co-located wireless datacommunications.

The issue covered by the half-day module, EMC for functional safety and high-reliability systems, is rapidly increasing in importance as more advanced technologies are used in safety-related and high-reliability systems (as some recent events in Australia, such as malfunctioning speed cameras, have shown).

The half day module, EMC techniques in electrical and mechanical design and assembly, describes practical assembly techniques using screws, spot welds, masking tape, etc., that get the best EMC performance from electrical/electronic modules, wiring and metal structures - reducing the costs of filters and shielding and making compliance easier to achieve.

PCB layout for EMC and signal integrity is a full-day module with two parts - the EMC and signal integrity techniques now needed for almost all cost-effective PCBs - and advanced techniques which can be used to eliminate enclosure shielding or improve the range of co-located radiocommunications, but are generally required to achieve compliance for PCBs that use advanced ICs (90 nm, chip-scale, etc.), or powerful digital signal processing.

Designing for EMC, is a two-day module that introduces the wide range of EMC techniques that all electronic designers now need to employ to help their companies compete globally. It is the same course that Keith teaches to MSc students on the Electronic Instrumentation Course at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology), in the U.K. on EMC and related topics.