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Tech Insider: EMI/EMC Simulation Analysis: The Challenges of Hybrid Power Train Technologies

April 23rd, 2008

2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)

With the introduction of hybrid power train technologies and their higher voltages and currents, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) has become a critical area of study for automobiles, raising issues for designers that include significant increases in cost and longer design cycle times. The increases are even greater when the majority of the design and testing process is based on prototypes. Although using simulation for full vehicle EMI/EMC studies has been limited because of limitations in algorithms and computation hardware, recent improvements in 3D EM algorithms combined with todays 64-bit computer architectures have put complex and electrically large simulations within reach of the designer.

This presentation will discuss where 3-D finite element (FEM) electromagnetic solvers can be applied to a set of problems in full-vehicle EMC and will demonstrate the validity of the solutions with measured results from recent studies. Techniques will be demonstrated that are used to build larger and more complex car models from a 3-D CAD browser database. Simulations that include wire harness geometries will be shown along with new post-processing techniques that enable the use of pseudo random bit sequence sources.

Presenters:
Matt Commens
Application Engineer, Ansoft Corporation
Phil Berger
EMC and RF Engineer, John Deere Product Engineering Center

Moderator: Ron Schneiderman
Author, The Mobile Technology Question & Answer Book — A Survival Guide for Business Managers and Technology Lost — Hype and Reality in the Digital Age
Contributing Editor, Electronic Design and Vision magazines
Founding Editor, Wireless Systems Design magazine

• Automotive Engineers
• EMI/EMC Engineers
• Software Developers
• Mechanical Engineers/Designers
• Package Designers
• Antenna Designers
• Semiconductor/Component Designers
• Engineering Management
• Academia

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