18 September 2006

 

On September 18th 2006, the Interntational 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. Coenen is customer relation manager and R&D manager EMC in IC's within the EM&C program of Philips Applied Technologies Eindhoven This honor and last years is an international recognition to our company's reputation for state of the art knowhow.

 

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.

 

 

Standards produced in recent years are:   IEC 61967-1/6; 6 parts RF emission IEC 62132-1/5; 5 parts RF immunity IEC 62215-2; 1 part, 2 parts in progress Impulse immunity IEC 62228; CAN bus Product dedicated requirements   As convenor and workinggroup member, Mart Coenen has written IEC 61967-1 and IEC 61967-5 as well as IEC 62132-1 en IEC 62132-5 parts. The parts 1 are the "General" parts and the parts 5 refer to the "Workbench Faraday Cage": an IC related version of IEC 61000-4-6 (from earlier involvement as project leader in IEC TC77B/WG3; basic immunity standards).

Mart Coenen, Customer relations manager and R&D manager EMC in ICs within the EM&C program of Philips Applied Technologies

 

Next to that substantial contributions have been delivered to the BCI immunity test method, together with Siemens VDO in Toulouse; IEC 62312-2 and the TEM-cell RF immunity test method, IEC 62132-3, together with Freescale, Austin.

 

Furthermore, he is responsible for IEC 62215-2,which has been adopted last week as TS (Technical Specification). This document describes a "Synchronous Transient Impulse (STI) immunity test method". This TS is an IC variant on the ESD standard IEC 61000-4-2 where ESD-alike pulses are applied fully synchronous to the IC's activity. Knowledge on ESD has been gathered as previous convenor of IEC TC77B/WG9 and liaison to IEC TC101 and ISO TC22/SC3/WG3.

 

Most of the above standards written have become de-facto standards in the automotive devices domain.

 

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