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News Release from: Automotive EMC Network
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2005
Conference programme available online
The annual Automotive EMC Conference programme has completed its review stage and is now available online.
The annual Automotive EMC Conference programme has completed its review stage and is now available online The authors and presenters this year come from a wide variety of suppliers to the automotive EMC and electronics market, including vehicle manufacturers, tier 1 component suppliers, test service suppliers, design consultancies, and after-market equipment manufacturers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This year the conference sees a significant interest for the after-market supplier with two papers specifically examining this topic.
One paper covers the latest changes in the EU Automotive EMC Directive (2004/104/EC) and how this will impact suppliers of after-market components, especially pertinent given the significance of the recent changes to this directive.
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The second paper examines the tests that are required to sell after-market components into the North American market, a topic often overlooked at European EMC conferences.
The vehicle manufacturer is well catered for as usual with, among several of direct interest, a paper covering a novel method of significantly reducing radiated emissions test time using a time-domain test method (total test time reduced to 20 minutes from a more usual whole day).
There is an extremely interesting paper on testing the EMC of a CAN installation and identifying the most likely culprit of problems once the network is in-vehicle, a problem that is difficult to address using conventional techniques.
This latter paper should be of interest to many system integrators and module designers as well as the vehicle manufacturers.
Designers and system integrators could also improve the EMC of installed networks by considering the location of antennae on a vehicle and a paper on the simulation of these structures in-vehicle should provide a cost effective method of assessment.
Telematics system designers should also pay attention to this paper as the results may provide clues to functional problems as well as EMC issues.
The EMC testing of vehicles and their components will be examined in three very different papers covering high powered pulsed methods for radiated immunity, conducted immunity standards for both international and manufacturer requirements, and a quantitative assessment of the impact of the ground plane during susceptibility testing.
The paper on using a pulsed technique for immunity testing demonstrates how very high fields (up to 600V/m) can be achieved using relatively low power, low cost amplifiers.
The conducted immunity papers provides an overview of the different test standards currently used by both vehicle manufacturers and the international standards, where these are different and what changes have been recently introduced.
The paper on susceptibility testing examines not only what nonidealities exist but also what fields are likely from realistic interference sources.
The conference programme offers a packed day of practical test methods, design techniques and integration strategies to ensure the optimum EMC performance of onboard electronics in a modern vehicle.
No other EMC conference brings together the breadth of coverage, application depth and industry focus for the automotive electrical designer, test service provider and system integrator.
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