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ASEAN-EU University Network
Programme
on
EMC
and
SI
Education
F.G.
Canavero’,
C.
Christopoulos2,
H.
Grabinski3, See Kye
Yak4,
Werachet Khan-ngern’
1
Politecnico di Torino, Torino (Italy)
2
University
of
Nottingham,
Nottingham
(UK)
3
Universitat Hannover, Hannover (Germany)
4
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
5
King Mongkvt’s Institute
of
Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok (Thailand)
Abstract
This
pper
reparts
about
a praject
for
the creation
of
an
in-
novative university course devoted to the preparation
of
future
electronic designers
to
the challenges imposed
by
the assur-
ance of the electrical performance
of
high-speed electronic sys-
tems. The target groups are future university teaching staff and
future electronic
systems
designers. Activities
are
developed
by means
of
sharing rcsearch results, seminars, experience
ex-
change and the development
of
demonstrators
to
be
used
for
teaching. The partnership is composed by Technical University
of Turin (Italy), University of Hannover (Germany), Univer-
sity of Nottingham
(UK),
Nanyang Technological University
(Singapore) and King Monguts Institute
of
Technology
Ead-
krabang,
Bangkok
(Thailand). The program
is
partidly
funded
by the European Commission under the
ASEAN-EU
Univer-
sity Network Programme (AUNP)
[I]
and
its
duration
is
24
months. Detailed information on the project development
is
in
http:\\www.aunp-emctraining.polito.ito.it.
Program
Objectives
The purpose
of
this program is
the
preparation
of
future
de-
signers
to
the challenges imposed by
the
assurance
of
the
elec-
trical
performance
of
high-speed electronic systems, that be-
come
more and more pervasive
and
fundamental
in
the
mod-
ern society, from communications to bio-medical applications.
The
market
trend
in
the electronic
industry
is
essentially based
on increasingly sophisticated high density and high frequency
complex systems. Signal Integrity and ElectroMagnetic Com-
patibility constraints encountered during the realization of such
systems are becoming stringent,
so,
as
the costs
for
a physical
implementation
of
these
devices are prohibitively high, design-
ers must be able to recognize
and
solve
SWMC
problems early
during
the
design stage and not after the physical realization
of
the system.
To
achieve
this
goal, universities must train future
teachers
to
be able to prepare
in
turn
future
electronic
design-
ers
on such matters, always
being
up-to-date
to
the
last
research
development
in
this field.
This
project is
a
new
kind
of
answer to the needs
of
European
and
ASEAN
universities concerning
SIEMC
aspects,
by
means
of
the collaboration between several research groups that have
developed considerable experience over the years in those key
areas
of
concern in current and future high-performance elec-
tronic
systems,
with
the
aim of building an updated
knowledge
base for designers instruction. The needs
of
the participating
partners are complementary: ASEAN countries are the loca-
tion where the fabrication of electronic circuits mainly takes
place (integrated circuits as well
as
small systems); now they
are trying to
move
also
to electronic
design.
Thus,
ASEAN
universities are the location where
future
ASEAN electronic de-
signers will receive their formal training, and they could have
great benefits from a collaboration with
EU
Universities
with
a
long
experience
in
the
field
of research
on
electronic
sys-
tems
design.
On
the other hand, European Universities will
benefit
From
the experience exchange with
ASEAN
Universi-
ties, because of their practical experience
on
actual problems
and constraints arising
from
the field and related
to
the applica-
tion
af
the
mast
advanced and recent electronic technology.
A
long
term collaboration and the realization
of
innovative course
material (demonstrative Printed Circuit
Boards
and systems
in-
volving the major
SI/EMC
phenomena) is the core
of
this pro-
gram.
Activities
The details
of
the project development, activities carried
out
and results
are
regularly posted on the project webpage
http:\\www.aunp-emctraining.polito.it.
The
course
of
the project was mostly developed according to the
results
of
a
survey exercise
on
the
EMC
training needs
of
the
electronic industries in both
EU
and
ASEAN
countries, that was
carried out in January
-
March
2004.
Survey
forms
were sent to
more
than one hundred electronic companies
as
well
as
to
some
postgraduate students
in
the universiries, asking
the
following
four
major
questions related
to
EMC
education:
1.
Have
you
attended
any
EMC
course?
2.
Do
you
think the knowledge acquired
in
the courses is we-
ful for
your
job?
3.
If
an
EMC
course
comes
with
a
practical
demonstrator
that
allows you to appreciate good and bad
EMC
design prac-
tices,
do
you think it will help you
to
understand
the
con-
cept
of
good
EMC
design better?
4.
What
EMC
design issues
(e.g.
crosstalk, conducted
EMI,
shielding,
PCB layout,
radiated
EMI,
etc.)
you
would
like
to
include in the practical demonstrator?
The findings
of
the survey can be summarized as follows:
About
85%
of the participants have attended some forms
of
EMC
training
or
courses.
For
those who have attended the EMC training
or
courses,
close to
98%
feel that the knowledge gained is useful
for
their
work.
For
all the participants, whether
or
not they have attended
any
EMC
course,
close
to
98%
agree that
a
practical
demonstrator that comes with
EMC
teaching will help
them
to
understand the concept
of good
EMC
design bet-
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Most participants would like crosstalk, conducted
EMI,
shielding,
PCB
layout and radiated EM1 to be included
in
the demonstrator.
In addition, useful suggestions were collected from the survey
as
important points for the delivery of an
EMC
course. Among
these, the following deserve mention and were accounted
for
in the course development: explain the underlying physical
phenomena without going into detailed theoretical derivations;
web-based applications of design guide, checklist and simula-
tion; schedule the courses
for
one week maximum; cover
EMC
regulations and standards; some basic
EMC
rules which are
easy
lo
remember
and
appiy
to
product design; use
of
circuit
simulator
such
SPICE
to
predict
signal
integrity,
emission and
immunity with simple models; introduce any simulation
tools
available where one can simulate
or
emulate the
EMCEMI
per-
formance.
According to the above results, a five-day intensive course is
presently under development. The course
is
based on physical
explanation
of
EMC phenomena, exploits dedicated demonstra-
tors and includes practical parts involving hands on sessions and
computer simulations. Emphasis is given to modeling and com-
puter simulation, with the help
of
state-the-art simulation codes.
The course content
is
organized
as
in the following outline and
addresses
the
topics highlighted by the survey.
D.l
Basics
of
EMC
and
EM
modeling
(Standards, regulations,
shielding,
EM
modeling)
D.2
Basics
of
Signal Integrity
(Interconnect, crosstalk, discon-
tinuities, passive components
and
IC
Uo
buffers modeling;
analysis, simulation and design
of
interconnecting paths)
D.3
(morning) Signal integrity and interconnects issues at chip
level
(Specijic problems, models and results)
D.3
(afternoon) EM1 measurements and testing
for
EMC Com-
pliance
(Test facilities,
measurement
procedures
and
test-
3ject
ing center visit)
tems, modeling and simulation
of
radiation)
generated noise)
D.4
Power delivery and radiation issues
(Power
delivery
sys-
D.5
Power supply issues
(Power
integriiy
and
power
supply
Demonstrators developed in the project and integrated in the
course
are
boxed
PCBs
with logic circuits
and
switched power
supplier,
that
are devoted
to
show radiation and power integrity
effects, plus
a
complete switched
mode
power supplier devoted
to show the power integrity and
EMC
issues
of
these systems.
The project
is
planned
to
be
completed in November
2005
and
the
first test
of
the course
will
take
place
in
Thailand
in
July
2005.
Conclusions
The survey carried
out
in this project highlighted that the
need of
EMC
design training in the electronic industry
is
real
and this project actually addresses one of the major design
chal-
lenges faced
by
the electronic designers.
The
idea of supporting
EMC
education and training with
a
practical demonstrator has
been well received
by
the electronic engineers to be an effective
tool
for
gaining
EMC
design knowledge
and
concepts.
A
com-
plete and innovative course, including demonstrators,
is
being
developed, that addresses crosstalk, conducted
EMI.
shielding,
PCB
layout and radiated
EM1
that are
the
major
design issues
arising in industry applications.
Acknowledgments
The financial support
of
the European Commission through
the ASEAN-EW University Network Programme contract
n.
ASE/B7-30111997/0178/01
is
gratefully acknowledged
References
11
J
ASEAN-EU
University Network Programme
http://www.deltha.cec.eu.int/aunp/
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