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How Denpaflux Simplifies EMC Testing

OnTrack · 16 Dec 2024 · 43m · Episode 284

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Reinhard Neureiter, CEO of Denpaflux, explains how his company uses AI-infused EMC consulting to address the high failure rate of first-pass EMC testing. He demonstrates a platform that analyzes PCB layouts to prioritize critical EMI risks, contrasting Denpaflux’s targeted approach with traditional rule-checkers that generate excessive noise. Neureiter discusses the shortage of EMC experts and how Denpaflux aims to empower design engineers with actionable feedback on stackups, grounding, and cabling.

AI in practice

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Engineering & simulationDenpaflux1300 findings reduced to 3, then under 20

The AI analyzes a PCB design to prioritize EMC risks, reducing the number of findings from 1,300 to 3 high-priority items, which allowed the team to fix the most critical issues first and reduce subsequent findings to under 20.

“We were running it through our approach. And we highlighted just 3 things. Where we think, is if you start with improving these free things. You have a huge improvement of the uh, performance of the of the board. We did it. We run it through again to the other tool and see then below 300 findings.”

Reinhard Neureiter · Hear it at 8:28

Engineering & simulationDenpaflux

The platform uses machine learning to learn from EMC experts' manual assessments, aiming to eventually automate the full assessment process by copying how humans analyze designs and enrich them with metadata.

“But in future, and that's how we how we are actually building our product, we learn from this analysis from the experts. And improve our tool, yeah, gets basically then smarter every day. Um, by, by every design, we analyze, um, we look how they, what the human expert does. and then try to copy that with the AI.”

Reinhard Neureiter · Hear it at 27:30

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Denpaflux, Altium, TDK
Products
PCB
Also
EMI, EMC

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