The EMC Blog

Dr. Hubing's take on various topics that (mostly) only matter to EMC engineers. 


Inductance is proportional to loop area
Misleading (but Often-Repeated) EMC Phrases

Perhaps I've become somewhat of an EMC curmudgeon, but it really bothers me when somebody says their microcontroller is "radiating." I have the same response if they say a trace is radiating, or that a gap in a return plane behaves like a slot antenna...
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What people (and AI agents) get wrong about common-mode filtering

scheduled for June 2026


What people (and AI agents) get wrong about printed circuit board decoupling

scheduled for July 2026


Why LinkedIn is such a terrible source of EMC information

scheduled for August 2026


Yes, the energy is in the spaces, not the traces: But!

scheduled for September 2026


What's the best layer stackup?

scheduled for October 2026


The water pipe analogy for electrical circuits.

scheduled for November 2026


The greatest advancement in EMC modeling of the century (so far)

scheduled for December 2026