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Douglas C. Smith

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High Speed Design, Troubleshooting, and Measurement in Electronic Circuits
A Practical Seminar Covering Successful Techniques for Designing, Debugging, and Reducing Noise!

Presented at the Toll House Hotel in Scenic Los Gatos, CA
January 24th-25th, 2005

If you have ever had or currently have a design or test problem, or want to avoid them in the first place, you will find this seminar very useful. Many design and troubleshooting techniques are presented that are not published by others and are unavailable outside of this seminar.

This seminar has been acclaimed by many as one of the best technical seminars for design, test, and EMC engineers and technicians available. Some features include:

  1. Major principles are demonstrated on real circuits and equipment in real time for the class.
  2. Simulations in real time of effects not observable by experiment
  3. Lively multimedia color presentation.
  4. Attendees receive:
The laboratory demonstrations account for about 50% of class time. Students will have the opportunity to suggest additional experiments or variations of the original experiments which will be done in real time for the class. I tell the attendees that I don't expect them to believe anything I say, I will prove it to them through experiments. This approach is more work for the instructor, but gives the attendees a much better experience.

This seminar is an excellent stand alone course or makes a good follow-up seminar to any of the commercially available high speed design or EMC seminars. Many students have rated this seminar the best they have ever taken on any topic! Some students have taken the course multiple times. Former students will find useful new material and are eligible for a 10% discount on the seminar price. Click here for a detailed description of the seminar.

The cost of the seminar is shown below and includes the items listed above, as well as continental breakfast, lunch, and break refreshments both seminar days. Former students of this public seminar taking it again may deduct 10% from the prices below. Three or more students registering on the same PO or registration form below may also deduct 10% from the prices below.

For a registration form, click for an html registration form or pdf registration form
If you are interested in attending or have any questions, click here.

Seminar Fee Schedule
Registration form received on or before January 17, 2005: $1095
Registration form received after January 17, 2005: $1195
Purchase Orders as well as personal and company checks are also accepted.
To submit a purchase order, click here to send an email message requesting details.

The venue will be the Toll House Hotel at 140 South Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos, CA 95030. The hotel phone number is 1-800-238-6111 (reservations) or 1-408-395-7070. Room fee includes airport pickup from San Jose Airport. For information on the Toll House Hotel or for room reservations on-line, click here or on the picture below. Los Gatos is a great place to visit. For pictures of Los Gatos, click here.

There are two hotels close to the Toll House for overflow. The Village Inn is the closest at about one block away. The Garden Inn is about 3 blocks away. Both are great places.
 

The Garden Inn
The Village Inn
46 East Main Street, Los Gatos, CA 95030
235 West Main Street, Los Gatos, CA 95030
Web: http://www.gih4me.com
Web: under construction
Phone: 1-800-888-8248/1-408-354-6446
Phone: 1-408-354-8120
FAX: 1-408-354-5911
FAX: 1-408-354-8121

The experiments are possibly the best part of the seminar. They cover signal integrity and circuit design as well as noise issues. Experiments are done in the front of the classroom with the measurement result displayed by a video projector large enough for everyone to see. A few of the experimental setups and topics are shown below. Some of the experiments are derived from the Technical Tidbits on this site, but are more detailed and cover much more information. For more information on the layout of the room and experiments, click here.

A Few of the Seminar Live Experiments and Simulatioins

noise induction into a circuit board
Balanced Probe Measurement of Pigtail Shield Connection
PWB Layer Stackup Effects on Noise Immunity
Inductive Coupling of Noise onto System Cables
Split Ground Plane and Circuit Board  Crosstalk and Noise
Effects of a Path That Penetrates Two Ground Planes
Effects of Cable Discharge on Systems
Probe Input Impedance Effects
The "Black Box" Experiment
Measuring Probe Performance
one of many waveforms in the seminar
 ground current plots measuring PWB effects
One of Hundreds of Waveforms from the Seminar
 Ground Currents in a System from a Live Simulation Measuring PWB Layout Effects

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