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The document outlines the process for developing an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) design approach within product development, emphasizing the importance of system-level EMC requirements. It discusses two fundamental strategies for meeting emission regulations: containment favored by military applications and source suppression preferred in commercial products. Additionally, it highlights the potential benefits of using mathematical modeling in the design process to evaluate and optimize EMC solutions.

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Process Flow Chart

The document outlines the process for developing an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) design approach within product development, emphasizing the importance of system-level EMC requirements. It discusses two fundamental strategies for meeting emission regulations: containment favored by military applications and source suppression preferred in commercial products. Additionally, it highlights the potential benefits of using mathematical modeling in the design process to evaluate and optimize EMC solutions.

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Unit V

Developing an approach to EMC design


Process Flow Chart
 Once the system-level EMC requirement for a new product has been determined the
product manager and her technical team must decide how to approach the EMC design
process as part of the overall product development programme.
 There are many ways to do this depending on the product, the company, and the
individual talents and expertise available.
 One example, which again acts as a checklist, is given in Figure 13.2.

Mainstream Product Design Constraints – includes Technical, Cost, Time, Performance,


Aesthetic, Size and weight constraints.
EMC Strategy:
 Containment- Keep electromagnetic noise confines within the device and system.
Use shielding, good grounding, metal enclosure to trap noise inside the system.
 Source Suppression: Eliminate noise at the point where it is generated instead of reducing
later.
 Tackle immunity before emission and don’t over complicate the design process.
There are two fundamental approaches to meet the emission regulations for products.
Case(i)
 The first has traditionally been favoured by the military for their procurements and is
based on the concept of containment.
 Thus the EMC subsystem designs will be based around the techniques of screening,
filtering and shielding of cables with less attention being paid to suppression of the
interference signal sources.
 Such an approach is viable for military products which usually have stout metal cases and
require strong semiarmoured cables, and where cost may not be the overriding
consideration in product design.
Case (ii)
 EMC designers of commercial products, which are usually lower cost and may have
features such as plastic cases and unshielded cables, have tended to suppress EMI at
source wherever possible by careful signal shaping/band limiting, the use of
screened/filtered subsystems and low radiation PCB designs.
Example of EMC design process:
 The considerations taken into account in developing the overall approach to achieving
EMC for a new product (Figure 13.2) are contained within the larger design process.
 Figure 13.3 illustrates the issues that need to be addressed to progress from the system-
level EMC requirement to a preproduction unit which is ready for EMC certification.
 Managers in small companies may shy away from including mathematical modelling as
part of the design process.
 If staff have the skill to use computer models and are able to interpret the results so that
competing design solutions can be evaluated, and only the best option tested and compared
with the predictions, the use of modelling can often be beneficial.
 If the decision is made to use mathematical models the question arises as to which models
to use. They range from those requiring large mainframe machines or which require only
a calculator or PC.
 If expert proposes the use of models based on spreadsheet techniques that can run on a PC
and enable the engineers to describe and visualise the EMI characteristics of the system
being designed.
 The successes (and the failures) of such models to predict solutions to EMI design
problems can be used to support building a computer based expert system,
 which then becomes a valuable part of the design process itself and which is applicable to
the design of the next generation of systems.

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