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28 February 2006
Goodbye and Good Luck
After Philips had decided to combine its EMC expertise in one
organization, I was asked to manage this change and to develop plans
to realize a new EMC lab on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. In
early 2003 representatives of various EMC expert groups in Philips
were involved in creating plans for a coherent and future proof
approach to maintain and expand relevant EMC competencies for both
Philips and external customers.
An ambitious business plan was presented to Philips senior R&D
management and they approved the execution of this plan.
For me this was the start of a very exciting period where we were
able to establish a brand new EMC facility on the High Tech Campus
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The official opening of the
state-of-the art EMC lab in September 2004 can be considered as a
major milestone on the road towards the creation of an economy of
scale for EMC, ESD and EMF expertise.
Today the EMC center is able to support its customers from early
architectural design choices to full (accredited) compliance testing
for a wide range of consumer, professional and industrial standards.
We have experts in ICs, PCBs and total products and solutions
supporting an integral design approach not only for EMC, ESD, EMF or
wireless coexistence but also to provide Signal Integrity (SI) and
Power Integrity (PI) solutions that really make a difference in
product performance. We set out to become a profitable service
provider for our customers in many areas of design support to enable
right first time design of electronic products and solutions.
Today EMC is part of a wider service offering within Philips
Applied Technologies and has numerous loyal customers that
increasingly call upon us to support their business. The upcoming
challenge is to further exploit the competencies in new markets and
external Philips. I am very glad that Frits Gehring succeeds me with
a clear ambition to make this happen.
As (probably) a last step in my career, I am taking up a
challenge outside Philips but I am convinced that EMC has a
‘radiating’ future.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all our customers
for their support and pleasant relations we developed over the
years. I also want to thank the management of Philips Applied
Technologies and Corporate Technologies for their continuous
interest and support and last but not least I want to thank all the
present and past employees of EMC for the great years.
EMC and Frits goodbye and good luck!
Piet Berkhout
3 October 2006
Open Innovation and New Products
High Tech Campus Eindhoven
We will participate in the event: "Open Innovation & New
Products" in October 2006 on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven.
Piet Berkhout will present at 15:15 hours Expert support:
Cost or value creation
Expert support is used in every organization. Accountants,
lawyers, engineers or Ad agencies, to name a few, are involved in
the day-to-day operation of almost every organization. In many cases
they are an intrinsic part of our operations and processes. We are
not able to deliver our products and services without their support.
But do we know how we have arranged for their support? If they
are part of our payroll we might have their commitment and
continuous involvement. When we hire these experts, or have
outsourced specific services and tasks to third parties, how do we
then manage their availability?
In many cases expert support and services are hired and managed
via purchasing with a strong focus on cost. By doing this we might
loose numerous opportunities for exploitation of expert support to
create value and quite often IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) for
our business. The Open Innovation structure of the High Tech Campus
Eindhoven offers numerous opportunities for technology based
businesses to create additional value by involving relevant
partners.
The presentation will provide a number of compelling examples of
value creation by expert ideas. On the other hand lack of the timely
involvement of specific expertise can lead to disastrous situations.
A summary of do's and don'ts will be discussed.
We are also present with a stand and visitors to the event have
the opportunity to visit our unique facilities.
For more information:
http://www.contactnl.com/?page=34&evenement_id=5
18 September 2006
Philips Applied Technologies' Mart Coenen has received
IEC 1906 Award
 On
September 18th 2006, the International Electrotechnical Commission
(IEC) has granted the prestigious IEC 1906 Award to Mart Coenen of
Philips Applied Technologies. Mart Coenen received the award as
recognition for his contributions in the field of Electromagnetic
Compatibility (EMC) standardization within the IEC subcommittees for
IC standardization.
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was
established in 1906. Working group IEC TC47A/WG9 was established in
1996 and deals with all EMC measurement techniques that are used at
the IC level. The participants are representatives from most of the
European, American and Japanese automotive IC suppliers, their
customers and several Technical Universities.
Since 2000 Mart Coenen has been convening this working group.
March 2006
New reference book on EMC for ICs
The ElectroMagnetics Competence center, represented by Mart
Coenen has been a co-author for the following state of the art
handbook on Electromagnetic Compatibility of ICs. Most of the public
information has been combined in this book in close collaboration
with EMC people from ST, Infineon, Freescale and various
universities:
Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits
Techniques for low emission and susceptibility
Ben Dhia, Sonia; Ramdani, Mohamed; Sicard, Etienne (Eds.)
2006, XIV, 474 p. 464 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-26600-3
About this book
Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits: Techniques
for Low Emission and Susceptibility focuses on the electromagnetic
compatibility of integrated circuits. The basic concepts, theory,
and an extensive historical review of integrated circuit emission
and susceptibility are provided. Standardized measurement methods
are detailed through various case studies. EMC models for the core,
I/Os, supply network, and packaging are described with applications
to conducted switching noise, signal integrity, near-field and
radiated noise. Case studies from different companies and research
laboratories are presented with in-depth descriptions of the ICs,
test set-ups, and comparisons between measurements and simulations.
Specific guidelines for achieving low emission and susceptibility
derived from the experience of EMC experts are presented. The
companion CD-ROM includes software illustrating key aspects of the
book and a collection of demo tools applicable to EMC analysis of
ICs.
Book Chapters to which we have contributed:
4) Measurement methods - Labussière, Drissi, Lochot, Carlton,
Coenen, Demoulin, Ben Dhia, Marot
6) Case study - Vrignon, Steinecke, Bouhouch, Perdriau, Coenen,
Baffreau, Lamoureux, hikawa
7) Guidelines & design rules - Coenen, Sicard, Baffreau, Fiori
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