Book description
This is a brief but comprehensive book covering the set of EMC skills
that EMC practitioners today require in order to be successful in
high-speed, digital electronics. The basic skills in the book are new
and weren't studied in most curricula some ten years ago. The rapidly
changing digital technology has created this demand for a discussion of
new analysis skills particularly for the analysis of
transmission lines
where the conductors that interconnect the electronic modules have
become “electrically large,” longer than a tenth of a wavelength, which
are increasingly becoming important. Crosstalk
between the lines is also rapidly becoming a significant problem in
getting modern electronic systems to work satisfactorily. Hence this
text concentrates on the modeling of “electrically large” connection
conductors where previously-used Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws
and lumped-circuit modeling have become obsolete because of the
increasing speeds of modern digital systems. This has caused an
increased emphasis on Signal Integrity.
Until as recently as some ten years ago, digital system clock speeds
and data rates were in the hundreds of megahertz (MHz) range. Prior
to that time, the “lands” on printed circuit boards (PCBs) that
interconnect the electronic modules had little or no impact on the
proper functioning of those electronic circuits. Today, the clock and
data speeds have moved into the low gigahertz (GHz) range.
CLAYTON R. PAUL
, PhD, is Professor and Sam Nunn Eminent Chair in Aerospace Engineering
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mercer
University. The author of twelve electrical engineering textbooks, he
has also published more than 200 technical papers primarily on the
electromagnetic compatibility of electronic systems. Dr. Paul is a
Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
