Excerpts from the June 2007 AutoEMC Newsletter

June 14th, 2007

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Automotive and EMC Conferences

• International Symposium on EMC and Electromagnetic Ecology 26 - 29 June 2007, St Petersburg, Russia
• IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Soc. UKRI Chapter 50th Anniversary Event at Brooklands Museum. Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0QN, on Wednesday June 20th 2007.
• Automotive EMC 2007: Navigating Automotive Compliance
  Synopses are in for the conference and the preparation of the programme is currently underway. Further details will be posted on the website during August for the conference on 16th October.

Standards

• ESDA Releases Revised Standard for ESD Control Programs
  The ESD Association (ESDA) has released a revised version of its standard covering the design and implementation of an ESD control program (ANSI/ESD S20/20-2007). An article in Conformity covers the release in more detail.
• CISPR 12 Released for EM Disturbances from Vehicle Mounted Electronics
  CISPR 12 – Ed. 6.0 still entitled “Vehicles, boats, and internal combustion engines – Radio disturbance characteristics – Limits and methods of measurement of off-board receivers.” Limited to an upper frequency of 1GHz still and over the same measurement distances and positions, it’s difficult to see what exactly has changed since the 2001 release.
• CISPR-16 Updates Released With the release of CISPR/TR 16-4-1-am2 – Ed. 01 in April entitled “Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus and methods – Part 4-1: Uncertainties, statistics, and limit modeling – Uncertainties in standardized EMC tests. Available to purchase from the IEC.

EMC Test

• Interference Technology 2007 EMC Directory and Design Guide
  The US industry’s premier EMC publication, available in paper form for US readers and eGuide digital edition for everyone else.
• Intertek Acquire ASTA-BEAB Certification Services
  Consolidation continues apace with the acquisition of UK based ASTA-BEAB Certification Services by Intertek. Intertek have been relatively aggressive in their acquisition campaign and now own brands such as SEMKO and ETL to name but a few and have a global workforce exceeding 17,000 employees. With such a global presence already well established the only question we could think of is “Who next?”

Design

• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL): The Next Best Thing?
  It’s getting so common these days that the articles no longer even bother expanding the acronym. Is HIL the next best ting or another passing fad that will have it’s heyday then fade into the sunset? This areticle in automotive design line clearly has a HIL bias, but gives a good background to the topic.
• Refusing to Go Quietly
  Is this the technology that never was still going around the houses? It appears there are still some advocates of 42V out there, although systems installed appear to have stalled in 2002 and in some places retreated? Those who are still wondering when this might happen can find an update in this Automotive Design Line article.

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