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IEEE EMC Symposium 2023: Exhibits

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The IEEE Symposium on EMC and SI/PI is growing back to normal size, which is quite a relief after the COVID experience. Part 1 of this series described highlights from the various presentations.

One of the highlights during the Symposium on EMC and SI/PI this year in Grand Rapids is always catching up on new products and renewing acquaintances with friends and vendors. Major sponsors this year included AR, Advanced Test Equipment, Boeing, The EMC Shop, ETS-Lindgren, and Gauss Instruments. There were 91 exhibitors this year, a little more than in 2022.

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Figure 1.The entrance to the exhibit hall. Over 90 exhibitors were waiting for us!
Figure 2. The large ETS-Lindgren booth was always crowded. Their specialty is antennas and shielded chambers.
Figure 3. Rohde and Schwartz was challenging attendees in signal hunting, as well as showing off new products.
Figure 4. Rhode and Schwarz marketing manager Wally Arceneaux demonstrated the new EPL EMI test receiver with a million acquisitions per second. Use it for fast testing of conducted emissions from 5 kHz to 30 MHz.
Figure 5. Heidi Barnes and Brian Ho of Keysight featured the company’s power integrity measurement and simulation tools.
Figure 6. EMC consultant from Switzerland, Diethard Hansen (left) discussed EMC training with Professor Bogdan Adamczyk, who heads up the EMC instruction at nearby Grand Valley State University. Prof. Adamczyk promoted an interesting book compiling his lecture notes along with EMC experiments and a complete parts list and board layout for each experiment. The book is expected in early 2024.
Figure 7. Bridget Kane-Ferrigan, Bruce Sparrow and Ashley Knaggs (L-R) of Fair-Rite introduced a new ferrite kit just for EMC consultants. The kit includes snap-on ferrite in various sizes using 75, 31, 44 and 61 materials. This encompasses the most used frequency ranges needed for EMI suppression.
Figure 8. My friend and EMC consultant in Israel, Elya Joffe, just coauthored a second edition of his book, Grounds For Grounding. News of second edition created a lot of excitement after I posted to LinkedIn.
Figure 9. Jason Moser, Daniel Traynor, and Scott Mee (L-R) of E3 Compliance. The EMC test lab has a special relationship with Grand Valley State University in that they are co-located within the university EMC student instruction and laboratory. Students are required to not only work with industry on projects, but to rotate through E3 Compliance so that they get hands-on experience in actual product testing. Scott Mee and Jim Teune (not pictured) co-founded E3 Compliance with the idea of partnering with Dr. Adamczcy’s EMC program at the university. Exceptional students are then hired by E3 Compliance. Such a win-win for both!

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