The Billion Dollar Mistake: Changing the Status Quo
We're excited to have Dan Beeker as the speaker for our first EMC Society meeting of 2024! This meeting is open to all, including non-members, at no charge. Dinner will be provided by Abbott.
Engineering teams worldwide face increasingly difficult challenges in designing electronic products and achieving good signal integrity and compliance. However, the status quo had become to expect the design to fail EMC testing, not just once, but three, four, or as many as five times. Each time the design is sent to be retested, there is little confidence in success. This cycle is expensive in both the time it takes to redesign the product and the cost of expediting fabricating the new PCB and assembly. Add this to the cost of retesting the product, and the numbers add up very quickly. This expense and delay in product certification are not in the budget or the schedule. The expense directly affects the bottom line of the electronic supply company, but also affects the customers waiting for the product. Instead of designing the next big thing, teams are trying to fix the current one. As a result, billions of dollars are lost each year designing products that are expected to fail.
Registration closes 5/12 to allow for pre-printing of visitor badges at the host site.
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- Date: 13 May 2024
- Time: 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- Co-sponsored by Abbott
- Starts 30 April 2024 12:00 AM
- Ends 12 May 2024 11:59 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Dan Beeker of NXP
Biography:
With more than 42 years of experience in electronic system design and EMC, Daniel Beeker provides application support for NXP Automotive customers worldwide. Daniel also supports NXP customers globally with special function development tools and instrumentation. Daniel specializes in EMC and signal integrity design techniques for systems and PCBs, especially in low-layer count designs. In support of this, Daniel has completed more than 250 PCB design evaluations for customers and internal NXP products. Daniel teaches field-based design techniques at NXP and industry conferences worldwide, with over 150 sessions and more than 6000 attendees since 2010. Daniel is also involved with NXP IC package design and IC development tool teams to support improved EMC performance, working on over 25 IC designs.
Daniel's unique approach to EMC is the result of many years of collaboration with one of the fathers of our industry, Ralph Morrison, whose foundation textbook, "Grounding and Shielding Techniques," was published in 1967. Ralph's science-based approach to design has formed the basis for Daniel's design philosophy, which has resulted in consistent success in both his designs and those of his students. Daniel also attributes his success to his association with another industry leader, Rick Hartley. The influence of these two extremely knowledgeable mentors can be seen in Daniel's material and his passion for sharing this perspective with the engineering community.
Daniel was the first recipient of UBM Publishing's 2017 Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award as the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Speaker of the Year and was a Keynote speaker at Altium Live 2017 in San Diego and Altium Live 2019 in Munich. Dan is a regular presenter at PCB East/West and DesignCon/Embedded Systems conferences, IEEE EMC Society and NXP training events, and special events hosted by Sierra Circuits. Daniel is also a significant contributor to PCB Africa, which is a project to increase the expertise in the central African electrical engineering community.
Agenda
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM: Attendees arrive, meet and greet
5:45 PM - 6:10 PM: Dinner, Announcements & General Stuff
6:10 PM - 7:20 PM: Presentation (1-hour formal presentation but extra time for questions)
7:20 PM - 7:45 PM Lab Tour (At host site discretion)