Ignacio de Mendizabal

• IIgnacio is an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) specialist dedicated to bringing reliable hardware products to market. With experience across aerospace, IoT, industrial, and medical electronics, he focuses on addressing EMC and certification challenges during hardware product development. Ignacio is known for translating complex electromagnetic compatibility problems into practical design strategies that help designers avoid costly redesigns and certification delays.

• Having lived and worked in Spain, Germany, and Belgium, he brings an international perspective to the hardware ecosystem. Through consulting, training, and technical writing, he pursues a clear mission: making EMC accessible, affordable, and understandable for builders developing the next generation of electronic products. He is the founder of Spectral Electronics, focused on developing infrastructure for hardware innovators by combining tools, knowledge, and community.

Engineering Strengths

• EMC support

  • • Structured and predictive EMC approach: early risk assessment and mitigation strategies. No complex equations, but actionable recommendations

    • Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis with debugging tools: near-field probes, current probes, antennas.

    • Preparing systems to reach the market from end to end

      • Identification of EMC standards

      • Architecture design

      • Detailed design: cabling, enclosures, schematic, PCB

      • Test plan preparation

      • Pre-compliance tests

      • Communication with the laboratories

      • Preparation of the technical file

      • Compliance testing with an external laboratory

      • Preparation for production

• Design

  • • RF design and development (background on telecommunications): antenna behaviour, matching circuits, radio testing.

    • Design for EMC (hands-on): PCB layout (return paths, partitioning, grounding), cabling, enclosures, filtering and shielding (Altium, KiCAD)

    • EMC filter design and simulation

• Trainings

  • • Onsite or online training: EMC for Hardware designers and technical managers to increase the chances of passing EMC right first time and avoid unnecessary redesigns.

    • Training Hardware teams to use EMC pre-compliance tools to increase the quality of production and avoid redesigns due to EMC failures

    • Making EMC easy and actionable by writing content

• Expertise

  • • Design-stage EMC in hardware development (IoT, wireless, mixed-signal, power electronics)

    • Sectors: medical, industrial, wellness, consumer, avionics, space

    • Be a design partner of founders with no or little experience in Hardware EMC troubleshooting

    • Close collaboration with engineering teams to implement solutions (not only reporting)