Time: Social 5:30 p.m. Presentation 7:00 p.m.

Place: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
3090 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051-0804

Subject: "Locating ESD and other Impulsive Events by Time of
Arrival."

Speaker: Douglas C. Smith

Abstract: Now that fast digital scopes are widely available, it is now practical to locate impulsive events using a few simple handmade antennas and looking at time delays of the wavefront. Examples will be discussed and a live demonstration given.

About the Speaker: Mr. Smith held an FCC First Class Radiotelephone license by age 16 and a General Class amateur radio license at age 12. He received a B.E.E.E. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1969 and an M.S.E.E. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. In 1970, he joined AT&T; Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. He retired in 1996 as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Recently, he was Manager of EMC Development and Test at Auspex Systems in Santa Clara, CA and is now an independent consultant. Mr. Smith is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors.

His technical interests include high frequency effects in electronic circuit design, including topics such as signal integrity, design reliability, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electrical Fast Transients (EFT), and other forms of pulsed electromagnetic interference. He also has been involved with FCC Part 68 testing and design, telephone system analog and digital design, IC design, and computer simulation of circuits. He has been granted over 15 patents, several on measurement apparatus.

Mr. Smith has lectured at Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Vanderbilt University, AT&T; Bell Labs, and at many public and private seminars on high frequency circuit design, troubleshooting, measurements, ESD, and EMC. He is author of the book High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits. He maintains a practical engineering website at http://www.dsmith.org containing nearly 100 useful technical articles.