RMCEMC January Meeting

Our last meeting was.....

ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE—A TUTORIAL

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Presenter:  Thurman J. (Bill) Ritenour (Bio)

Date :      January 20th  2004

What we saw:  

The RMCEMC got the 2005 technical program off to a flying start with fifty people attending our first meeting. This meeting was intended as a review of the basics of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and was divided into four parts. Part 1 consisted of a description of the several types of ESD events that are created in information processing equipment and other electronics. Part 2 outlined the various possible current wave shapes of the ESD event and how each wave shape affects logic and other electronic circuitry. Part 3 was a general review of ESD mitigation techniques and briefly explores unique shielding and grounding issues associated with ESD events. Part 4 focused on test set-ups, test equipment, and product survivability requirements. All in all an excellent start to the tenure of Matt Aschenberg our new Technical Program chair

Speaker Bio

Mr. Ritenour is the principal and owner of EMC Compliance LLC, an EMC consulting Company in Boulder, Colorado. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas (Austin) and worked in the aerospace industry until 1980. Over the past twenty four years he has assisted Information Technology, Consumer Electronics, Medical, Military, Telephone Switching, and Process Control companies in meeting applicable FCC, European Union and US Military EMC regulations. In addition, he has taught public EMC courses on Principles of EMC, Principles of ESD, Principles of Grounding and Shielding, Principles of Printed Wiring Board Design for EMC and Signal Integrity, EMC aspects of Medical Electronics Design, and European Union EMC Regulations; as well as in-house courses on customer selected EMC topics in US, Europe, Canada, and Australia.  

He has served on several ANSI committees: ESD (one of the co-authors of ANSI C63.16 ESD Test Guideline released in 1993), Medical EMC and others; served for five years as the liaison between the IEEE EMC Society and the ESD Association; served for ten years on the IEEE EMC Society Standards Committee, served on the IEEE EMC Society’s Board of Directors from 1994 through 1997, and was designated as an IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer for years 1997 and 1998.

He has written articles on EMC topics in Midcon, IEEE EMCS, EMC EXPO, and EMC/ESD International symposia as well as periodicals, and holds one patent (1996) in the field of EMC.

PICTURES FROM OUR JANUARY MEETING