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Welcome to this installment of EE Classroom on EMI and RFI

Electromagnetic interference. Radio frequency interference. It’s all interference to you and your design unless you have a near-constant vigil of what can be causing it and what steps to take to avoid it. And, of course, this isn’t the type of interference that is simply annoying; it can be mission-critical. It’s the type of interference that can disrupt electronic devices, equipment, and systems ranging from cellphones to solar cells on spacecraft. 

Now is the time to drop-in to this classroom and get up close and personal with EMI and RFI. Get a basics refresher, a standards lowdown, and tips on testing — the understanding of which can also be mission-critical to your design.

So shut the door, turn off the phone, hang up a do-not-disturb on your door while you read through these tutorials. Make this your own personal design of non-interference.

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When EMF becomes EMI

What is EMI and how can you prevent it?

Conducted and coupled EMI/EMC concepts

With signals at radio frequencies (RF), mutual inductance becomes more of a problem than resistance.

EMI is an electromagnetic emission that causes a disturbance in another piece of electrical equipment.

Reducing emissions also often results in lower EM susceptibility and improved system performance.

EMC/EMI design and the use of board-mount dc/dc converters

Choosing inductors or ferrite beads for power supply filtering

What are RF inductors?

Magnetism, electromagnetism,

and inductance

RF inductors have several uses and are available in various construction types to suit the performance needs of specific applications.

EMC and EMI are system-level considerations that have implications for power system design.

Simply adding some inductance to clean up a switching regulator output seems like a good idea but it isn’t that straightforward.

To understand inductance, it is important first to understand magnetism and electromagnetism.

EMI, EMC, EMS, and the ITU

You passed: Getting products through EMC/EMI compliance tests

Noise quantification and measurement

A scope-based technique for optimizing EMI input filters

Ensuring EM compatibility at a specified level and operating conditions is a common demand in the almost all electronics designs.

In choosing a way to mitigate electronic noise mitigation, it is necessary first to quantify it and ascertain its source.

Pre-compliance tests run in your own lab can avoid band news when products go into formal checks.

A simple oscilloscope setup can size common-mode and differential-mode noise filtering components separately and more accurately.

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