High
Frequency Measurements Web Page
Douglas C. Smith
Address: P. O. Box 1457, Los Gatos,
CA 95031
TEL:
800-323-3956/408-356-4186
FAX:
408-358-3799
Mobile: 408-858-4528
URL:
www.dsmith.org
Email: doug@dsmith.org
Published Works
Textbook:
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High Frequency Measurements and Noise In Electronic Circuits, 1992,
published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN #0-442-00636-5, 231 pages
Papers:
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"A Method of Accurately
Measuring Shielding Efffectiveness of Materials in Electronic Products", June 2002 white paper written for Wavezero, Sunnyvale, CA
- "Sources of Impulsive EMI in Large Server Farms", 2002 EOS/ESD Symposium paper
- "Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Inside a Hard Disk Drive Due to External ESD", 2002 EOS/ESD Symposium paper
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"The EMI/ESD Environment of Large Server Installations", 2001 EOS/ESD Symposium paper
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"ESD Immunity in System Designs, System Field
Experiences and Effects of PWB Layout", 2000 EOS/ESD Symposium paper
- "Investigate
System-Level ESD Problems", Test & Measurement World Magazine,
November 1999, cover story.
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"Unusual Forms of ESD and Their Effects",
1999 EOS/ESD Symposium Proceedings, pp.329-333.
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"Signal and Noise Measurement
Techniques Using Magnetic Field Probes," 1999 IEEE EMC Symposium Proceedings,
pp. 559-563.
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"Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Damage to Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR)
Recording Heads", 1998 EOS/ESD Symposium (jointly authored with A. Wallash).
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"Metrology and Methodology of System Level ESD Testing", 1998 EOS/ESD Symposium
(jointly authored with D. Lin, D. Pommerenke, J. Barth, L. G. Henry, H.
Hyatt, M. Hopkins, and G. Senko).
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"Damage to Magnetic Recording Heads Due to Electromagnetic Interference",
1998 IEEE EMC Symposium (jointly authored with A. Wallash).
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"Current Probes, More
Useful Than You Think", 1998 IEEE EMC Symposium.
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"A Method of Assessing Disk Drive EMI Performance for Large Arrays of Disks",
1998 IEEE EMC Symposium (jointly authored with G. Dutrow and G. Seebruch).
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"A Method for Troubleshooting
Noise Internal to an IC", 1997 IEEE EMC Symposium.
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"Measurements of ESD HBM Events, Simulator Radiation and Other Characteristics
Toward Creating a More Repeatable Simulation or; Simulators Should Simulate",
1996 EOS/ESD Symposium (jointly authored with J. Barth, D. Dale, K. Hall,
D. McCarthy, H. Hyatt, and J. Nuebel).
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"An Investigation into the Performance of the
IEC 1000-4-4 Capacitive Clamp", 1996 EOS/ESD Symposium.
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"A New Method for Measuring the Shielding Effectiveness of Interconnections
in Shielding Technologies: Application to Cellular Phone Gaskets for the
Housing", 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
(jointly authored with Richard Haynes and Philip J. Muniz).
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"Measure Noise in Switching Supplies", Test & Measurement World, April
1996, pp. 11-12.
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"Coaxial Magnetic Probes and Applications", ITEM 1996, pp. 128-129 (jointly
authored with Richard Haynes).
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"Balanced Probe Extends High-Frequency Measurements",
IEEE Circuits & Devices, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 1994, pp. 19-23.
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"EMC Performance Comparison of Shielded and Unshielded Data Transmission
Systems", EMC '94 Roma, International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility,
University of Rome "La Sapienza".
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"CISPR Conducted Emissions Measurements on Telecommunications Leads: An
Improved Test Proposal", 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
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"An Improved Method of Characterizing Shielding Materials", 1994 IEEE International
Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (jointly authored with Chauncey
Herring and Richard Haynes both of the AT&T Engineering Research Center
at Princeton, NJ).
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"Troubleshooting Using a Differential Coax Probe", IEEE Santa Clara Valley
EMC '94.
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"A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications", 1993 EOS/ESD Symposium.
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"Techniques and Methodologies for Making System Level ESD Response Measurements
for Troubleshooting or Design Verification", 1992 EOS/ESD Symposium.
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"A Comparison of the Susceptibility Performance of Shielded and Unshielded
Twisted Pair Cable for Data Transmission", 1992 International Symposium
on Electromagnetic Compatibility (jointly authored with Bob Pritchard of
AT&T Network Cable Systems).
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"Applying High Frequency Techniques to Measuring ESD Phenomena and its
Effects", 1989 EOS/ESD Symposium.
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"Computer Simulation of ESD and Lightning Events", 1986 EOS/ESD Symposium.
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"Transmission Improvements on Local Loops by Using Active Terminations",
1978 International Symposium on Subscriber Loops and Services.
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