EMC for Product Design: Meeting the European Directive

I have a library of books on EMI/EMC, and Williams book is surely one of the most useful. Definitely a great addition to the field - very readable, and complete. Like many texts, the book begins with a high-level introduction to EMC, then moves on to relevant standards, followed by testing methods. For me personally, I the latter part of the book to be most valuable. Chapters are dedicated to many design topics including: coupling mechanisms (both conducted and radiated), layout and grounding, digital/analog circuit design, interfaces and filters, and shielding. The book wraps up with four very useful appendices: Design Checklist, CAD for EMC, Case Studies, and Important Formulas. If you can get only three EMC books, I would recommend Clayton Paul's Intro to EMC, Michel Mardiguian's EMI Troubleshooting Techniques, and William's EMC for Product Designers. They all come from different angles (academic, design, and troubleshooting), but together they serve as a good foundation. Please be kind and indicate if reviews are helpful. Written by Arthur Bradley, author of "Process of Elimination" - a thriller that pits a martial artist against a world-class sniper out to shape the presidential election.

Another hit by Tim. I enjoyed the previous edition of this book. An exellent read to help stay abreast of the changing standards and challenges in the field. While I had no complaint about content - the font size in the in this edition was challenging because of the small type. Otherwise good and reference.

This book take a complete coverage on the EMC subjetc. All topics are well covered as test, regulations, design and troubleshooting. Even if you are not an EMC test enginer I highly recommend to learn something about this task, because some of the non compliance issues, really are setup and test not well done. The EMC test is not as easy to start a program in the PC and create reports, by the contrary there is a lot of science to know what we really are doing, and few EMC test engineers are prepared to do this. The book is 100 per 100 profitable, it has the honor to be next to my prefered ones. Just find a problem, I am 55 years old, the characters are too small and I can hardly read. A few pages more and very little savings less, would have solved the issue.

The first half of the book is about all of the government EMC regulations. The second half starts with the basics of how interference happens, then shows ways to eliminate it. Following this are several case studies.

If you can only afford 1 book on EMC make it this one. It covers the general field very well and deserves its' standing as the definitive text on EMC. It does not cover some aspects of design as well as specialist texts but gives enough of a background to get a reader moving in the right direction. If you are new to EMC or want a background to what all the fuss is about, this is the best starting point you can have.