The book addresses interface-engineering basics, specifications- and circuits for compatibility. The EMI and signal implications at the interface are surveyed with special emphasis on cables and the ESD problem. EMI Standards and their limits and measurements are covered. Logic families and how to interface are discussed. 
Logic family, speed, bandwidth, noise-immunity level and interconnections are reviewed. Interfacing techniques between boxes are surveyed along with balanced line drivers and receivers. Cable types and selection are included with EIA and other standards. Terminal and peripheral interfaces include EIA, CCITT, WECO, DS and other recommendations and properties. DCE-to-DTE interconnections address balanced and unbalanced circuits and STD, GPIB, VME bus interfaces. 
335 Pages, 152 Illus. (0-932263-28-3)
 

The EMC Encyclopedia includes Units, Terms, Definitions, Formulas, Math Models, Acronyms, and Contacts. This desk reference book consists of about 3,000 EMC related entries. It includes many useful illustrations, figures, tables, charts, diagrams and formulas. Sponsored by over 65 advertisers.
400 Pages, #73253 (0-932263-99-2)

The EMC Encyclopedia includes Units, Terms, Definitions, Formulas, Math Models, Acronyms, and Contacts. This desk reference book consists of about 4,500 EMC related entries. It includes many useful illustrations, figures, tables, charts, diagrams and formulas. Sponsored by over 200 advertisers. We also offer a new section on Test Laboratories.
624 Pages, (0-944916-96-1)
 

This is a lay book version of the EMF Controversy. Actually it covers considerably more topics than the original EMF Controversy handbook (see above), but it is written in a non-technical language understandable to the consumer and non-technical person. 
The first four chapters set the pace for the scientific basis, which are responsible, legal considerations and a call for prudent avoidance. The remaining eight chapters address the various locations where both prudent avoidance and EMF reduction techniques can be carried out. 
Chap 1 - Scientific Basis for the EMF Debate
Chap 2 - Who is Responsible? 
Chap 3 - Legal Considerations and Entanglements 
Chap 4 - A Call for Prudent Avoidance 
Chap 5 - Electrical Appliances and the Home 
Chap 6 - Realtors, Sellers and the Home 
Chap 7 - The Work Place 
Chap 8 - Schools 
Chap 9 - MRI and Hospitals 
Chap 10 - Transportation Systems 
Chap 11 - Amusement and Theme Parks 
Chap 12 - Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Lines and Substations 
Chap 13 - Bibliography 
195 Pages, 39 Illus. Price $20
 

This book begins with an impressive overview of computer site integration techniques, including lightning and surge protection, power conditioning, I/O cable interfacing and protection. Isolation transformers, line voltage regulation, motor- alternator, UPS and other power conditioning apparatus are covered. Shared vs. dedicated circuits are discussed along with power-line analyzer and system grounding. 
Special attention is given to medium to large computer rooms. A Zero Signal Reference system (ZSRS) and grounds (ZSRG) are covered. Physical reliability and construction of resulting subfloor cell techniques are examined including wire-grids, bus bars, foils and sheet metal. 
Computer cable installations, including data-, control, signal LAN and telephone cables are discussed. Electrical conduits, cable trays and raceways, their grounding and inter- connect to ZSRG are analyzed. 
The small computer room is also discussed, along with guidelines for interfacing of external cables with the computer room. Finally, the small, stand- alone equipment requirements and reliability are reviewed. 
Other chapter’s address cabling between separate areas remote from the computer room. Special lightning protections are laid out including the use of common-mode devices, special cables and ground windows. 
116 Pages, 35 Illus.
 

This book was inspired by a search of the four authors for a solution to the EMF perceptions. One of the first of its kind, this new book on the EMF Controversy issue presents much material, some not in print before. The four authors, a bio-effects scientist, an attorney, and two electrical engineers team up to tell much of the low-frequency, magnetic field, EMF story in a clear and unbiased manner. 

Chap. 1-The EMF Controversy Continues - Seven sections from history to risks. 
Chap. 2 -Forming an EMF Corporate Policy - Seven sections from corporate responsibility to corporate policy. 
Chap. 3-Magnetic Field reduction Techniques for Overhead Power Lines - Eight sections from magnetic fields to Vertical Delta, Double Circuits. 
Chap. 4-Practicing Prudent Avoidance - Seven sections from prudent avoidance to public transportation.
Chap. -Reducing Magnetic Fields from Building Wiring and Grounding - Six sections from current loads to unbalancing of circuits. 
201 Pages, 45 Illus.
 

The book allows the reader to assemble and maintain an inventory of the most commonly needed tools, accessories and components needed to fix interference problems. It provides information about manufacturers and vendors, part numbers, performance specifications and other pertinent data, plus a step-by-step approach for application of the various elements. This book is printed in lab manual format, with room for the reader to add notes in the wide outside margin. This, as well as the soft binding, makes it particularly useful for fieldwork. 
184 Pages, 109 Illus. (0-944916-03-1)
 

Regarding the development of the field-to- cable coupling model, the two-wire line is presented first. The differential-mode and common- mode current by the method of images are discussed, as well as the wire over a ground plane and dissipative losses. With plane-wave excitation, electrical field parallel to the termination is reviewed. Then electrical field parallel to the conductors and to the plane of the wire over a ground plane are addressed. Time domain responses are also covered. 
The exact and approximate methods of a line excited by a small loop and short dipole are reviewed. Illustrative numerical examples of both are given. Shielded cables are discussed at length. Sheath current distributions and load current spectrum are presented. The shielding
effectiveness and transfer impedance's of a number of shielded cables are illustrated. The appendices cover topics including the derivation of coupled first-order equations from field theory. The review of transmission-line theory includes lines driven at one end, midsection and at both ends. Conditions corresponding to a line with distributed sources along the conductors are given. 
148 pages, 72 Illus. Price.: $49 (0-471-01995-X)
 

The basics of electrostatic charge and discharge and the major influencing parameters are presented for humans, furniture and other objects. Statistics of voltages and currents, and the resulting ESD waveforms are given for different environments. Radiated and conductive couplings of ESD into PC boards and cables are explained and calculated. Field amplitude and spectrum versus distance and wave impedance are given. 
ESD Specifications of MIL-STD-883, -1541, -1686 and IEC 801.2, including recent updates, are reviewed. Both diagnostics and compliance testing are discussed along with test setups and test procedures. 
Emphasis is on design for ESD immunity at the component, PCB, box packaging and system level. Immunity offered by software and noise inhibiting features are presented. The roles of shielding and aperture-leakage reduction are reviewed and calculated through several examples.
Since many ESD problems occur at cable entries, ESD hardening of cables & connectors is covered in depth. 
To help in troubleshooting, a number of ESD case histories are given including re-radiating ground wires, printer carriages, data terminals with floating trays, microprocessor latch-up and others.
256 pages, 164 Illus. (0-932263-27-5)
 

Nuclear EMP is surveyed with its impact on electronic systems and vulnerability and system hardness verification. Sources of EMP and the resulting environment are reviewed including the mechanism of the EMP field, deposition region and resulting EM levels for high-altitude, ground and near-ground and underground bursts. Internal EMP and system-generated EMP are discussed. Covered in detail are the entry modes of EMP energy into systems. 
Coupling models include cables and transmission lines acting as antennas in varying configurations and through shields and enclosures, apertures, slots and slits, and through utility systems. EMP susceptibilities in electronic systems include circuit vulnerability, latchup, permanent damage and burnout. Prediction & analysis via math models of transfer functions of sources, media, coupling & victims are presented. The system is also analyzed via vulnerability prediction and the methodology is discussed in detail including zoning & coupling analysis. 
250 Pages, 115 Ills. (0-932263-16-X)
 

After reviewing EMI and related problems in conventional wire coupling and common solution, the book opens with optical coupling as an alternative solution. After surveying the sources and detectors of optical coupling, and the solutions of radiation, cross-talk and ground- related problems, the limitations of optical coupling are discussed.
Optical isolators in circuits and systems are presented, together with testing and device selection. Fiber optic media and some basics of optical fibers and cable preparation are covered. Connectors and couplers are addressed separately and as a unit. 
Digital fiber-optic links covering the transmitters, receivers, repeaters and optic buses are reviewed. Analog fiber-optic links and their limitations are also surveyed with applications to audio and video channels and trunks. 
Selection criteria starts with overall system considerations and moves to the components, modules and devices selection. The subject is closed with packaging assemblies and compatibility’s. 
Applications to industrial controls and methods of measuring transmission characteristics are presented. Hardened fiber-optic links including EMI environments are also surveyed. 
271 Pages, 161 Illus. (0-932263-21-6) 
 

This book is one of the most basic and fundamental handbooks written on electrical filters, ranging from networks and synthesis to the design and physical reliability. 
Lumped and distributed element filters, hybrids, active and acoustical filters are covered. The meaning of poles and zeros in the frequency plane, and corresponding network behavior are reviewed. 
Filter-circuit designs of low, high-band-pass and band-rejection are discussed, along with insertion loss and component characteristics in- clouding leakage resistance and parasitic behavior at VHF and UHF. 
The chapter on physical reliability of filters helps prevent the designer from selecting components that are not physically realizable. Selecting inductors which have parasitic capacitance- resonance and capacitors with too much pigtail inductance are avoided. 
Alignment and measurement techniques are discussed for multistage filter tuning. 
295 Pages, 195 Illus. (0-932263-07-0) 
 

This book is a good primer, but quickly moves into more subtle topics for dealing with the purpose and rationale for electrical grounding. It addresses the physical reliability of grounds for lightning and shock-safety control as well as for the control of electromagnetic interference. Several topics referring to the National Electrical Code and Compliance are covered. 
The issue of common-impedance coupling due to multi-grounding is discussed in detail along with the impedance properties of ground planes made of various metals and ground wires, straps and bonds of other configurations. Overcoming resonance effects is addressed with solutions and options for reducing common- impedance coupling. 
172 Pages, 105 Illus. (0-932263-17-8) 
 

This is our most basic book on electrical interference and control, and is written for technicians and entry-level engineers. 
The sources, coupling paths and victims are highly illustrated along with basic terms and definitions. Review of dB logarithms and EMI- performance reporting topics are surveyed. Techniques of identifying and localizing outside EMI sources are reviewed along with the methods of their suppression. Transient sources of lightning, power-line disconnects are identified, and methods of ESD elimination are discussed. 
Lines of defense from radiated EMI are discussed including shielding at different levels from component to entire enclosures, with special attention on boxes and enclosures, and their electrical gasketing. Cable entrance of enclosures are discussed with right and wrong methods of achieving desired performance. Wiring types and layout are discussed with EMI control through twisting, shielding and routing. Bonding addresses the methods of joining conductive panels and parts for EMI control. Grounding, EMI filters and their mounting, and methods of troubleshooting complete the handbook. 
87 Pages, 52 Illus. (0-932263-22-4)
 

Forty years of knowledge and hands-on experience with intermodulation and its effect on communications systems address the principles and procedures needed to evaluate potential interference before the system is committed to hardware. 
This comprehensive book teaches how to calculate the spectrum and predict the power level of intermodulation products, as well as how to identify and remedy potential interference. The consequence of modulated signals when evaluating the effect of intermodulation interference are shown, along with the effects of modulation of bandwidths of intermodulation products. A computer disk (with source code) of sample programs for intermodulation calculations is included so the reader can work through the book examples and explore the effects of varying system parameters. 
335 pages, 152 Illus.
 

Lightning phenomena, six different types of lightning, and lightning damage and protection are surveyed. Lightning protection covers prevention, arrestors, and surge suppressors (gas arc discharge, solid-state and hybrid protectors). 
Grounding and bonding, protection systems, and applications for buildings and vehicles are included. Testing, measurement, design verification and compliance certification include injection testing and the indirect effects of externally mounted hardware. Periodic maintenance of devices and installations are tested and inspected including grounding and bonding. New developments in lightning protection are reviewed. 
181 Pages, 87 Illus. (0-932263-14-3)

Microwave Discrete Solid-State Devices and Interface Considerations. 107 pages, 44 illus. (0-944916-17-1)
Microwave Integrated Circuits and Interfaces. 103 pages, 33 illus. (0-944916-13-9)
RF and Microwave Matching Techniques. 142 pages, 53 illus. (0-944916-14-7)
Microwave Power Coupling and Related Interfacing Devices. 127 pages, 44 illus. (0-944916-15-5)
Driving Circuits and Interface for PIN Diode and Ferrite Phase Shifters. 101 pages, 39 illus. (0-944916-18-X)
Millimeter Waves and Applicable Interfaces. 121 pages, 54 illus. (0-944916-16-3)
Six Volume Set: Individual
 

This book begins with an overview of the shielding methodology and procedures and quickly moves into how to determine shielding effectiveness requirements. Electromagnetic ambient threats are surveyed along with victim sensitivities. 
The ambients include those from licensed transmitters, lightning and the electromagnetic pulse. Building and vehicle attenuation of housings are covered, along with the resulting electromagnetic ambient inside structures, and coupling into victim wiring. This is overlaid on analog sensitivities and logic noise immunity levels to determine the resulting interference-to-noise ratios which become the required shielding effectiveness. 
150 Pages, 65 Illus.
 

This is a complete guide to EMI shielding materials and procedures from small enclosures to buildings and vehicles. It includes shielding and field theories, wave and metal impedance's, and shielding effectiveness (SE). Extensive information on achieving skin shields using conductive paint, spraying, dipping, deposition and composites is presented, along with methods for determining SE requirements, SE of box structures, evaluation and control of aperture leakage's, and shielding design. 
616 Pages, 278 Illus. (0-944916-03-1)
 

The only way to prove your EMC design works is to test the final product. Volume 6 shows you how to do just that. The rationale and administration of EMI emissions and susceptibility testing is presented in depth. Test instruments, conducted and field transducers, automated EMI testing, test sites and en- closures, test plans and reports are also discussed, along with typical test errors and their elimination. Special emphasis is placed on military standards and commercial regulations per FCC, CISPR, IEEE, SAE, and other regulatory interests. 
675 Pages, 405 Illus. (0-944916-06-6)

Interference in baseband and carrier band telecommunications systems may be forecasted and analyzed to determine if it meets user objectives. Following an introduction to telecommunication system EMC, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of transmitter, receiver and antenna EMC considerations, propagation paths and modes, and performance models for EMC assessment. EMI control methods are discussed and a survey of EMC analysis computer software is included. 
568 Pages, 199 Illus. (0-944916-07-4) 

If you could buy just one book, this is it! This volume provides the user with an organized approach to EMI problem diagnosis and solution in both design and retrofit applications. The material covers electromagnetic ambients, analog and logic victims, radiated and conducted coupling, and EMI emission and susceptibility control techniques. Also covered are common and differential-mode, ground-loop, cable to cable, common-impedance, and power mains coupling, along with related control methods. 
544 Pages, 264 Illus. (0-944916-08-2)

The most sought after USA military standards are reproduced in this volume. Explanatory text familiarizes reader with the importance and applicability of these standards. The book includes the major intersystem and intrasystem standards: 
 MIL-STD-220A MIL-STD-463A 
 MIL-STD-285 MIL-STD-45662 
 MIL-STD-461D MIL-STD-704D 
 MIL-STD-462 MIL-STD-831 
688 Pages (0-944916-11-2)

Organized similarly to Volume 11, this book provides information on, and reproductions of supporting military standards relating to connectors, cables, filters, etc. Specific MIL standards and specifications include: 
 MIL-STD-5400T MIL-STD-1385A 
 MIL-STD-13909C MIL-STD-1512 
 MIL-STD-15733F MIL-C-85485A 
 MIL-STD-26482G MIL-C-83723D 
 MIL-STD-1377 MIL-C-24308B 
 MIL-STD-1399B & many others 
624 Pages (0-944916-12-0)