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Meeting Notice
The IEEE Southeastern
Michigan EMC Society presents
"Reducing
Emissions through PCB Layout and Effective Power / Ground Plane Decoupling "
Presented by: Dr.
Bruce Archambeault
Date: September 17,
2003
Time: 5:30 PM
New Meeting Location: University
of Michigan - Dearborn - Professional Education Center Bldg, PEC Rooms 1430
& 1440.
Map and directions at https://www.emcsociety.org/UMDdirections.pdf
***You
must pre-register for this free event online at: https://www.emcsociety.org/eventregistration.html
Registration
Deadline: 12:00 Noon on 9/17/03
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Schedule of Events
5:30 – 6:00 Refreshments Provided by Carter McCormick and Pierce (CMP)
6:00 – 7:00 Technical Presentation
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Synopsis of Presentation
Abstract:
Multi-layer PCBs typically contain a number of different high speed signals.
Successful routing of all these signals often require some of the standard
EMC "rules" to be violated. However, not all of these EMC rules are equal,
that is, some are more important than others. A few of the more important
causes of potential EMI will be discussed. In addition to the most important
EMI causing design issues, decoupling of power and ground-reference planes
is an important issue for both EMI emissions control and for circuit functionality.
This topic has generated a lot of technical papers, and controversy. While
there has been a lot of attention on this topic, there is still significant
confusion about the best strategy for decoupling. This part of the talk focuses
on the sources of noise that the decoupling capacitors are intended to control,
and the physics involved in the noise propagation, and how to properly analysis
the decoupling capacitor performance. The analysis must be performed in BOTH
the time domain and the frequency domain. The frequency domain analysis is
a steady state analysis, and will determine resonances, which are most useful
for EMI emissions analysis. The time-domain analysis is a transient analysis
and will help determine how well the current is delivered to the IC, and ultimately,
how large (or small) the generated noise pulse will become. Real-world examples
of measurements, as well as computer simulations are used to demonstrate the
optimal decoupling strategy.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Bruce Archambeault is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in Research
Triangle Park, NC. He received his B.S.E.E degree from the University of New
Hampshire in 1977 and his M.S.E.E degree from Northeastern University in 1981.
He received his Ph. D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. His doctoral
research was in the area of computational electromagnetics applied to real-world
EMC problems.
The IEEE Southeastern
Michigan EMC Homepage is https://www.emcsociety.org