GROUNDED: Your PCB, EMC/EMI, and SI Nuggets

Ehmm… yes, you can.

In fact, it’s one of the simplest, most effective, low-cost, and quickest ways to ensure you don’t run into EMC troubles later on.

These are the same strategies I use to ensure my clients and partners can head to the EMC lab with confidence, rather than full of doubt.

They’re the exact same strategies I’ve been sharing with other engineers through my trainings and programs, empowering them to achieve the same results.

Yet, because they’re so simple, many designers still don’t believe they’ll work for them.

They prefer to think EMI is some kind of black magic.

You don’t have to take my word for it—just watch how it works in practice.

In this short video, I give you a glimpse of what it looks like to verify complex PCB designs by applying these fundamental principles with Simbeor®, an advanced electromagnetic and signal integrity software.

The tool analyzes the PCB design and checks for EMI issues that might be hard to spot.

For example, it looks at:

- Reference Integrity Violations

- Impedance Discontinuities

- Signal Crosstalk

And it also tells you how to fix them, straight from the layout!

These aren’t just signal integrity issues—they’re also highly likely to turn into EMI problems that could lead to failed EMC tests.

The advantages of understanding how all this works are massive.

It gives you the power to master EMI through PCB layout, instead of relying on tweaks like filters, shields, ferrites, or whatever else you can throw at it once you’re at the lab—when it’s already too late to do anything meaningful.

TLDR: It’s all about the fundamentals.

-Dario

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