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The Clemson Vehicular Electronics Laboratory (CVEL) collaborates with industrial sponsors to provide research and education services involving all aspects of automotive and aerospace vehicle electronics including electronic components, circuits, sensors, communications, power distribution and mechatronics with an emphasis on systems integration, electromagnetic compatibility and modeling.
Site OrganizationThis site has four main sections. The automotive electronics section includes tutorials and information relevant to electronic systems in cars, trucks, tanks, submarines, ships and various other land and water vehicles powered by gasoline, fuel cells, batteries or hybrid systems. The aerospace electronics section is devoted to electronics in air and space vehicles. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) plays an extremely important role is the development and maintenance of the electronic systems in all vehicular designs and therefore an entire section of the web site is devoted to EMC and the control of conducted and radiated electromagnetic interference (EMI), including intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI). This section includes several tutorials and a collection of "EMC Design Guidelines". Finally there is a section devoted to electromagnetic modeling. Computational electromagnetic modeling tools are becoming an increasingly important part of the automotive and aerospace electronics design process. This section describes the tools that are available and provides tutorial information for people who are just getting started in EM modeling. Information on our laboratory can be accessed using the links in the sidebar on the left. These links include descriptions of some of our current projects as well as an overview of our staff, facilities and services. What's New in the Automotive Electronics IndustryElectromagnetic Modeling News: ANSYS slated to acquire Ansoft (press release). What's New at CVELWe are completing our survey of electromagnetic modeling software, which will be published on this site later this summer. In the meantime though, we have had a flurry of updates to our list of free EM modeling software and list of commercial EM modeling software. The lists of Automotive EMC Standards, Avionics EMC Standards, and Commercial EMC Standards were recently updated. Six new articles, Faraday's Law for EMC Engineers, Transient Protection, Electromagnetic Radiation, Time/Frequency Domain, Identifying Current Paths and Printed Circuit Board Layout, have been added to our EMC Tutorials section. We will continue to add tutorial articles to this section throughout the summer. CVEL hosted a workshop on Advances in Automotive EMC Test and Design on March 12, 2008. If you'd like to know more about what we've been up to lately, here are slides from recent presentations: Automotive Electronics PresentationsElectronic Systems Research at CU-ICAR PCB Radiation Mechanisms: Using
Component-Level Measurements to
Determine System-Level Radiated Emissions Electromagnetic Compatibility & CAN Bus EMC Expert Systems for Evaluating Automotive Designs Circuit Board Layout for Automotive Electronics Electromagnetic Compatibility PresentationsBuilding IC Models Based on Measurements and Using These Models Productively Using Electric and Magnetic "Moments" to Characterize IC Coupling to Cables and Enclosures Deriving Design Limits using the Expert System Algorithms Essential New Tools for EMC Diagnostics and Testing Non-Ideal Behavior of Components Lightning and Lightning Protection Things Every Electrical Engineer Should Know about EMC Estimating Unintentional Electromagnetic Emissions from Printed Circuit Board Designs Printed Circuit Board Decoupling Detection of Electronic Devices Based on Their Unintended Electromagnetic Emissions (last update: August 14, 2008 ) Contact UsIf you have comments or suggestions, please contact us at CVEL-L@clemson.edu. |
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