Robust Electronic Design, Inc.

and

dBi Corporation

John R. Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, NCT, ESDC Eng, ESDC Tech, PSE, SM IEEE
January 6, 2010
jrbarnes@iglou.com

This web site is a joint project of Robust Electronic Design, Inc. and dBi Corporation, to help you develop electronic products and electronic equipment that:
  1. Work.
  2. Are safe and reliable.
  3. Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically.
  4. May be marketed and used worldwide, meeting national and international:
  5. Can be easily enhanced/adapted to meet new and changing market requirements.

The following web pages are new, or have had significant content added within the last month:

John R. Barnes' second and third books, Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II are now available from Springer, which merged with Kluwer Academic Publishers in July 2004. The ISBN for the hardbound set is 1-4020-7739-4, and the list price is $430.00 (US). The two books total 1,736 pages, with 194 tables, 663 illustrations, and a 106-page index covering over 9,200 design/ development/ manufacturing problem areas that may arise in getting from that "first fuzzy idea" to a product in mass production, or a piece of equipment in service. In 2005, John received a Division Technical Achievement Award from the ARRL for writing these books. You can read a sample chapter by going to Chapter 17. Further information on these books is available at:

John's most recent article, "Designing Electronic Systems for ESD Immunity", was published in the February 2003 Conformity magazine (vol. 8 no. 1, pages 18-27). This is a condensed version of his two-part article "Designing Electronic Equipment for ESD Immunity" which was published in the July 2001 Printed Circuit Design magazine (vol. 18 no. 7, pages 18-26) and "Designing Electronic Equipment for ESD Immunity Part II," which appeared on the pcdmag.com web site in November 2001.

This web site may be accessed through http://www.r-e-d-inc.com/ or http://www.dbicorporation.com/.

The first major section of this website is devoted to designing electronic products and equipment that are safe and reliable:

The second major section of this website is devoted to designing electronic products and equipment that can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically:

The third major section of this website is devoted to designing electronic products and equipment that may be marketed and used worldwide:

The fourth major section of this website is devoted to designing electronic products and equipment that can be easily enhanced/adapted to meet new and changing market requirements

The fifth major section of this website is devoted to designing electronics to be lead-free, RoHS-compliant, and WEEE-compliant:

The sixth major section of this website is devoted to Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II:

The last major section of this website is devoted to miscellaneous topics:

We would appreciate your suggestions for additional topics of concern to you. Please E-mail us at jrbarnes@iglou.com, or call us at (859)253-1178.

DISCLAIMER
These documents are freely offered to anyone who wishes to use them. No warranty for their use is expressed or implied. The information in these documents is believed to be correct, because they are based on primary source documents as much as possible. But some of these documents are known to be incomplete, because we are still in the process of finding pertinent source material, and because standards/regulations in their areas are continuously evolving.

Please use these documents as:

No amount of reading can take the place of having experienced personnel, armed with the pertinent information, designing or reviewing the design of your particular product.

COMMENTS
If you refer to one or more of these documents in written communications, please mention our web site as the source. Similarly, if you link to them from your own web page(s), please E-mail jrbarnes@iglou.com giving the universal resource locater (URL), so that we may provide a reciprocal link.

Please send critiques, corrections, and/or additions to jrbarnes@iglou.com , or by snailmail to:
John Barnes
dBi Corporation
216 Hillsboro Ave
Lexington, KY 40511-2105

Robust Electronic Design, Inc. is the research arm of dBi Corporation, an A2LA-accredited EMC/EMI/ESD testing and consulting company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Our staff has been directly involved in putting over 115 major electronic products into mass production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark, as well as doing the EMC/ EMI/ ESD engineering tests and FCC/ CE-Marking approval tests for over 231 products and 3 testers developed by clients-- bringing them into compliance with both domestic and international laws and standards. Our staff has also served as an expert witness on electronics in three lawsuits. We have over 36 years experience in the computer and electronics industries developing electronic products and electronic equipment that:
  1. Work.
  2. Are safe and reliable.
  3. Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically.
  4. May be sold and used worldwide.
  5. Can be easily adapted/enhanced to meet new and changing requirements.

Our President, John R. Barnes, is a Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in the state of Kentucky, a NARTE-Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer (NCE), a NARTE-Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Technician (NCT), a NARTE-Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer (ESDC Eng), a NARTE-Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Technician (ESDC Tech), a NARTE-Certified Product Safety Engineer (PSE), a Senior Member of the IEEE (SM IEEE), and an Advanced-class amateur radio operator. He has written three books: Electronic System Design: Interference and Noise Control Techniques, which was published in English in 1987 and in Russian in 1990; and Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II, which came out in 2004. John has also written articles on designing electronics for electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity for Printed Circuit Design and Conformity magazines.

Robust Electronic Design, Inc. and dBi Corporation may be contacted by:

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Last revised January 6, 2010.