PCB-Level EMC, part I

Components & Transmission Lines

from 8:15am Welcome Coffee

8:45am Room open

9:00am The key to understanding EMC: "EMC-Physics"

  • Noise-Energy
  • Types of coupling
  • EM-Fields
  • Transport of energy on transmission lines
  • Inadvertent construction of "Antennas"

10:30am Coffee break

10:45am EMC-Components

  • Wire, connector-pin, via
    • Inductance and mutual Inductance
    • Effects
  • Capacitors
    • Equivalent circuits and their limitations
    • Effects with fast edges
    • Special capacitor types
    • Proper layout
  • Chokes
    • Equivalent circuits and their limitations
    • Proper modeling and selection-criteria

12:30amLunch

01:30pmSignal lines I

  • PCB-traces
  • Impedance
  • Voltage-steps
  • Transmissionline properties
  • Time-delay and reflections

03:00pm Coffee break

03:15pm GND-topologies in Printed Circuit Boards

  • Discontinuities in GND-topologies
    • Slots / cuts
    • Bottlenecks
    • Proper Design for multiboard-systems
    • Proper pinout for connectors
  • GND-Fill
    • Drawbacks
    • Proper use
    • Copper-Balancing

~ 05:00pm Discussion