EMC Fest

EMC Fest

May 16, 2024

Attendee Registration Page

Vendor Table Registration Page

Vendor Letter 2024

Vendor and VIP Dinner

EMC Fest Hotel Reservations

NOTICE:  Doug Smith recently suffered a knee injury and will not be able to travel to EMC Fest.  Ken Wyatt has graciously agreed to present all four sessions with similar content.

2024 Speaker:  Ken Wyatt

Kenneth Wyatt

Kenneth Wyatt of Wyatt Technical Services LLC

A Three-Step Process for Radiated Emission Troubleshooting Success

Most product designers know how to use a near field probe to assess harmonic content on their boards or system cabling. However, they often don’t know how to proceed next to resolve the actual issue. I developed a simple three-step process for evaluating a product and drilling down to the root cause.

PC Board Design for Low EMI

The root cause of many design issues involves the circuit board design and how the I/O and power connectors are arranged and filtered. Poor board designs, interconnect placement and filtering can result in radiated emissions, radiated immunity, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) compliance failures, among others. Bad designs often result in endless cycles of trial and error mitigation, compliance testing and board spins. This drags out the schedule and is very costly. I’ll explain how digital signals propagate in boards as electromagnetic fields. I’ll also explain how interconnect placement and poor filtering design and layout can affect the EMI performance. Once you understand this, then board stack-up, trace routing, filter design and interconnect placement should become very clear and you should be able to design a low-EMI board the first time!

Ten Tips for Characterizing & Troubleshooting Board-Level EMI for Products, Including Wireless 

It is fairly common to find multiple on-board sources of energy causing radiated emissions on today’s product designs, including board-level EMI for wireless portable, mobile, and IoT devices. The EMI from these energy sources can couple to cables creating radiated emissions, as well as interfere with the receiver performance of cellular, GPS and other wireless modules. This presentation describes methods for identifying, characterizing and reducing the coupling from these energy sources.

Bench Top Troubleshooting ESD and Radiated Immunity Failures

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) has started to become very common, due to the lower noise margins for digital circuits. While the test is easy to set up in-house, it can become one of the most challenging EMC issues for manufacturers to overcome, because it’s difficult to determine the path of ESD current and exactly what circuitry is being affected. In addition, radiated immunity issues have become very common and is nearly impossible to set up in-house without great expense and trained test operators. Often it involves endless cycles back and forth between adding random fixes in-house and then running back to the compliance test lab. The delay for both ESD and radiated immunity issues can negatively affect product introductions. This presentation will describe a simple method for troubleshooting and mitigating both issues right on the lab bench. Several case studies will be described.
Kenneth Wyatt is principal consultant of Wyatt Technical Services LLC, as well as past senior technical editor for Interference Technology Magazine (2016 to 2018). He is based in Colorado and has worked in the field of EMC engineering for over 30 years with a specialty in EMI troubleshooting and pre-compliance testing. He trains and speaks internationally, is widely published, and is the co-author of the popular EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers and the recently published EMC Troubleshooting Trilogy (Volumes 1-3). All are available through Amazon. He is widely published and authors a monthly column, Practical EMC, for the Signal Integrity Journal, has blogged for EDN.com for many years and continues to write a monthly blog, EMC Bench Notes, for InCompliance Magazine and an occasional feature article for Interference Technology Magazine. 

He may be contacted at ken@emc-seminars.com  or kwyatt@interferencetechnology.com

Check out his web site for more technical information, training schedules, and links: http://www.emc-seminars.com.

Check out his web site for more technical information, training schedules, and links: http://www.emc-seminars.com.

Important Registration Information – Please read First!

Vendor Information

Attendee Registration Page

Vendor Table Registration Page

Vendor and VIP Dinner

EMC Fest 2023 Slides

Note:  Our sister chapter in Chicago has a similar event on May 14, 2024
http://www.emcchicago.org/sectfiles/events.htm

Agenda

  Program Outline: Thursday May 16, 2024

6:00 Vendor Table Setup (till 8:30)
8:00 REGISTRATION & EXHIBITS
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00		 Session 1 – A Three-Step Process for Radiated Emission Troubleshooting Success
10:00 Break & Exhibits

11:00		 Session 2 – PC Board Design for Low EMI
12:00 LUNCH

1:00		 Session 3 –  Ten Tips for Characterizing & Troubleshooting Board-Level EMI for Products, Including Wireless
2:00 Break & Exhibits

3:00		 Session 4 – Bench Top Troubleshooting ESD and Radiated Immunity Failures
4:00 Reception
5:00 Close of EMC Fest

Venue: Embassy Suites in Livonia

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EMC Fest 2023 Photos

EMC Fest 2022 Photos

EMC Fest 2019 Photos

EMC Fest 2018 Photos

EMC Fest 2018 Slideshow

SAVE THE DATE for EMC Fest 2024 – May 16, 2024 

EMC Fest 2024 Reception Sponsors:

Absolute EMC LLC
Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, Inc.
mk-messtechnik GmbH
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS)

EMC Fest 2024 Lunch Sponsors: 

Cornucopia Technical Sales
Elite Electronic Engineering, Inc.
KGS America (KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES)
Nolato Silikonteknik
Rohde & Schwarz
SGS North America
The EMC Shop
Transient Specialists Inc.

EMC Fest 2024 Table Sponsors: 

Absolute EMC LLc
ADCO Circuits, Inc.
Advanced Test Equipment Rentals
AE Techron
Altair
AMETEK CTS US, Inc
AP Americas
Avalon Test Equipment
Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, Inc.
Chroma
Cornucopia Technical Sales
Detectus
Electro Rent
Elite Electronic Engineering, Inc.
EQS Systems
ETS-Lindgren
Fair-Rite Products
Frankonia
HV TECHNOLOGIES, Inc.
In Compliance Magazine
Intertek Testing Services
KGS America (KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES)
Lightning EMC, LLC
Micro-Sales
mk-messtechnik GmbH
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS)
MVG, Inc.
Nexperia Semiconductor
NoiseKen
Nolato Silikonteknik
Oak Mitsui Technologies, LLC
Ophir RF Inc
Orbel Corporation
Orion Measurement Solutions, Inc.
Proterial America, Ltd.
Raymond EMC
Rohde & Schwarz
SGS North America
Siglent Technologies NA Inc.
TDK LAMBDA AMERICAS INC
Testforce
The EMC Shop
TOYO CORPORATION
Transient Specialists Inc.
TRS-RenTelco
TUV SUD
Vectawave
FEE SCHEDULE.  NO REFUNDS AFTER April 15
IEEE Members Registered Before April 15 $75
Non-Members Registered Before April 15 $100
IEEE Student Members Before April 15 $50
Retired / Unemployed / Life  IEEE Members Before April 15    $50
*CEU Uniits $25
Vendor Table $500
Vendor Table &  Lunch Sponsor $600
Vendor Table & Reception Sponsor $700
Extra Vendor Staff Early $75
Extra Vendor Staff Late $100
All At the Door  $150
* Requires additional use of registration system.

For EMC Fest Vendor Table Registration questions contact Steve Tomba

steve@emcsociety.org

EMC FEST 2016 VIDEO & PHOTOS

EMC Fest 2015 Pictures from EMC Fest 2015: http://www.emcsociety.org/EMCFest2015/EMC_Fest_2015_Pics.htm

EMC Fest 2014 Pictures from EMC Fest 2014: http://www.emcsociety.org/EMCFest2014/EMC_Fest_2014_Pics.htm

EMC Fest 2013 Video

IEEE EMCFest Committee

Speaker Arrangements
Continuing Education
Suriano Solutions
candace@emcsociety.org

Vendor Exhibits & Dinner
Steve Tomba
steve@emcsociety.org

Registrations & Website
Scott Lytle
scott@emcsociety.org

Registration Table
Robert Adams
Candace Suriano
Scott Lytle

Treasurer
James Woodyard
jim@emcsociety.org

Photography & Audio Visual
Akio Fujimaki
Akio@emcsociety.org

Audio Visual
Malcolm Lunn
Kimball Williams
Akio  Fujimaki
John Suriano

It is with a heavy heart we inform you that our section chair Robert Neff passed away on Sunday, October 6, 2019    Bob was the vendor table chairman for many years for our popular annual chapter event EMC Fest

Obituary and funeral service information may be found at https://www.casterlinefuneralhome.com/obituary/robert-neff-jr?fh_id=15828

Jim Woodyard, EMC Chapter 8 Awards Vice-Chair, presenting Scott Lytle, EMC Chapter 8 Chair, with a Leadership Award on behalf of the Chapter for his many years of service.  Under Scott’s leadership, the Annual EMC Fest Conference has grown from a few Chapter members to drawing over two-hundred attendees, and several exhibitors. The presentation was made during the awards ceremony at the 2019 EMC Fest Conference held in Livonia, Michigan on May 9, 2019.


Jim Woodyard, EMC Chapter 8 Awards Vice-Chair, presenting Candace Suriano, EMC Chapter 8 Technical Activities Vice-Chair, with the 2019 Excellence in Service Award Leadership Award on behalf of the Chapter for “for over 15 years of Service to the Chapter and continued pursuit of excellence in all that she undertakes especially for youth STEM Programs in local libraries and schools. The presentation was made during the awards ceremony at the 2019 EMC Fest Conference held in Livonia, Michigan on May 9, 2019.

Matt Feusse, EMC Chapter 8 Treasurer, congratulating Dr. Eric Bogatin and informing him that his professional commitment to the education of chapter members will be honored with a donation in his name to the University of Colorado-Boulder Foundation for supporting student research.  Dr. Bogatin was the 2019 EMC Fest Conference speaker; the title of his presentation was “Illustrating Signal and Power Integrity Principles through Measurement Examples”.  The Conference was held on May 9, 2019 in Livonia, Michigan.

That the Wayne County Commission salutes and commends KIMBALL WILLIAMS for his community service and career in engineering; and be it further resolved on this 9th day of May 2019, that this resolution be spread at length upon the journal of this day’s proceedings to endure as a lasting record of acknowledgement and that a suitable copy be presented to KIMBALL WILLIAMS, with our best wishes for many years to him and his wife Mary Lou.