All, Recently I attended the IEEE EMC Society's annual symposium in Detroit, Michigan. Many sessions and papers have been devoted to Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI), and their effects on EMI-EMC. I thought the time had come to suggest soliciting papers that are oriented to practical design in SI, PI and EMI-EMC. This idea was well received by TC10, the technical committee charged with the task of putting together sessions in this subject area. The session papers and speakers would be focused on the application of formulas and EDA tools to design problems rather than their derivation or verification. Just enough on their derivation and verification would be given to put the design methods in context. The main effort would be in explaining how limitations in the methodology were successfully overcome and how manufacturing variability was managed. The session could be organized in different ways. Four papers in a four hour session would be the right amount. Two way I am thinking of organizing a session are: 1. Four papers that take a design development from start to completion. Each would explain how Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, EMI-EMC, and manufacturing variability was design for. Or, 2. One paper each on Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, EMI-EMC, and manufacturing variability with explanations of effects on, and from, the other three areas. The next symposium will be in mid-August in Austin, Texas. The reasons for letting the SI-LIST community know about this so early are: 1. SI, PI, and EMI-EMC are now more tightly linked than ever. The IEEE EMC Society knows this, we know this and that everything we do in a design has the potential of affecting all these areas. 2. The IEEE EMC Society solicits papers, actually power point presentations, early in its symposium year The plan is to have the final presentations/paper synopsis reviewed by January and speakers notified shortly thereafter. 3. The IEEE EMC Society realizes that perfect derivations, perfect EDA tools and models, perfect components and perfect designs are not high probabilities. They know that their audiences want to know how working engineers achieve working designs in an increasingly complex technology world. The IEEE EMC Society is increasingly becoming a home for engineers with the interests reflected in the SI-LIST. Best Regards, Roy Leventhal ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu