EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers

by Patrick G. Andre, Kenneth Wyatt, Henry Ott (Foreword)

EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers provides the 'recipe' for identifying why products fail to meet EMI/EMC regulatory standards. It also outlines techniques for tracking the noise source, and discovering the coupling mechanism, that is causing the undesired effects. This title gives examples of simple, easily implemented, and inexpensive troubleshooting tools that can be built by the engineer or technician, and uses methods that require only a basic understanding of electromagnetic theory and a minimal background in EMI/EMC. It will show the engineer and technician how to develop a process for troubleshooting using a straightforward approach in solving what may seem like a rather complicated problem at first. It will provide guidelines on how to approach an EMI failure, things to try, how to choose the right parts and balance cost, performance, and schedule. This book tells readers trying to solve EMI problems what to do and how to do it.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2014

Reviews

[Brian Miracle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book describing not just troubleshooting tips for existing EMI problems, but also design tips for how to avoid those problems in the first place. The book discusses all kinds of problems, including radiated emissions and susceptibility, conducted emissions and susceptibility, EFT, ESD, and lightning. A useful addition to the bookshelf of any engineer who deals with EMI.