dBi Corporation
John R. Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, NCT, ESDC Eng, ESDC Tech, PSE, SM IEEE
November 12, 2012
jrbarnes@iglou.com
This web site is a project of
dBi Corporation, to help you develop electronic
products and electronic equipment that:
- Work.
- Are safe and reliable.
- Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced
economically.
- May be marketed and used worldwide, meeting national
and international:
- Product safety standards.
- Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards.
- Electromagnetic interference (EMI) standards.
- Electrostatic discharge (ESD) standards.
- 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:
- Tin Pest (revised November 12, 2012)
- Bibliography for Tin Whiskers, Zinc Whiskers,
Cadmium Whiskers, Indium Whiskers, and Other Conductive Metal and
Semiconductor Whiskers (revised November 12, 2012)
- Bibliography for Designing Lead-Free,
RoHS-Compliant, and WEEE-Compliant Electronics (revised November 2,
2012)
- Power Distribution on Printed Circuit Boards-
Bibliography (revised November 2, 2012)
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.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:
- Bibliography of EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for
Information Technology Equipment (ITE) and Related (Generic)
Equipment (revised May 10, 2012)
- Emissions Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (Unintentional Radiators) (revised December 2, 2011)
- Immunity Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (revised December 2, 2011)
- Harmonics Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (revised December 2, 2011)
- Flicker Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (revised December 2, 2011)
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Standards for Commercial
Electronic Products (revised December 3, 2011)
- Radiated Immunity Standards for Commercial
Electronic Products (revised December 3, 2011)
- Electrical Fast Transient/Burst (EFTB) Standards for
Commercial Electronic Products (revised December 3, 2011)
- Surge Immunity Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (revised December 2, 2011)
- Conducted Immunity Standards for Commercial
Electronic Products (revised December 3, 2011)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Commercial Electronic
Products (revised December 4, 2011)
- Key Dates for EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for
Commercial Electronic Products (revised December 11, 2011)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Information Technology
Equipment (ITE) (revised December 19, 2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Radio and Television
Broadcast Receivers, and Associated Equipment (revised December 19,
2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Measurement, Control, and
Laboratory Equipment (revised December 19, 2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Lamps and Luminaires
(revised December 19, 2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Household Electrical
Appliances and Portable Tools (revised December 19, 2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Generic Products to be
Used in Residential, Commercial, and Light- Industrial Environments
(revised December 19, 2010)
- EMC/EMI/ESD Standards for Generic Products to be
Used in Industrial Environments (revised December 19, 2010)
- Internet Sources for Electronics Books, Standards,
Manuals, Journals, and Magazines (revised June 26, 2012)
- Transition Rules and EMC/EMI/ESD Test-Report
Retention Rules (revised December 19, 2010)
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
- International Power, Plugs, and
Languages (revised December 21, 2010, 38KB, 9 pages)
- International Primary Power, Plugs,
Languages, Approval Marks, and Approval Agencies (revised December 31,
2010, 190KB, 70+ pages)
The fifth major section of this website is devoted to designing electronics to
be lead-free, RoHS-compliant, and WEEE-compliant:
- Bibliography for Designing Lead-Free,
RoHS-Compliant, and WEEE-Compliant Electronics (revised November 2,
2012)
- Tin Pest (revised November 12, 2012)
- RoHS Compliance: THE END of Reliable Electronics?
(presented to the Lexmark Toastmasters Club on May 17, 2005; added
January 27, 2006)
- Lead-Free Electronics and the RoHS Directive
(presented to the Lexington Section of the IEEE on January 26, 2005;
added January 27, 2006)
- Bibliography for Tin Whiskers, Zinc Whiskers,
Cadmium Whiskers, Indium Whiskers, and Other Conductive Metal and
Semiconductor Whiskers (revised November 12, 2012)
The sixth major section of this website is devoted to Robust
Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II:
- Corrections, Updates, and Additions to Robust
Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II (revised February 6,
2012)
- Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes
I and II(revised December 19, 2010)
- 20 line/inch graph paper for drawing line art
using Microsoft Word 97's drawing features (View, Toolbars, Drawing)
(added January 11, 2004)
- schematic symbols for drawing line art using
Microsoft Word 97's drawing feature (added January 11, 2004)
- Using PE32 to Create an Index for Microsoft Word
(and Other) Documents (revised December 20, 2010)
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:
- Pointers to official documents that may pertain to your product(s).
- Reminders of problem areas and pitfalls that you may encounter in
designing electronic products.
- Some guidelines to help you avoid or work around these problem areas.
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
dBi Corporation is an
A2LA-accredited EMC/EMI/ESD testing
laboratory (test house) based in Lexington, Kentucky. In the last ten years
we have done the FCC/ CE-Marking/ Australia/ New Zealand approval EMC/ EMI/
ESD tests for over 373 products developed by clients-- bringing
all but 4 (so far) of the 331 products for which we've done the official testing
into compliance
with both domestic and international laws and standards. We have also served
as an expert witness on electronics in three lawsuits. Before joining dBi,
our staff was directly involved in putting over 115 major electronic products
into mass production at Sycor,
IBM, and
Lexmark. Our staff has over 39 years
experience in the computer and electronics industries, developing electronic
products and electronic equipment that:
- Work.
- Are safe and reliable.
- Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically.
- May be sold and used worldwide.
- 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, an iNARTE-Certified
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer (NCE), an iNARTE-Certified
Electromagnetic Compatibility Technician (NCT), an iNARTE-Certified
Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer (ESDC Eng), an iNARTE-Certified
Electrostatic Discharge Control Technician (ESDC Tech), an iNARTE-Certified
Product Safety Engineer (PSE), an iNARTE-Certified Master EMC Design Engineer,
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.
dBi Corporation can be contacted by:
- E-mail at
jrbarnes@iglou.com
- Fax at (859)252-6128.
- Phone at (859)253-1178.
- Snail-mail at 216 Hillsboro Ave, Lexington, KY 40511-2105.
Last revised November 12, 2012.
