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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION<br />
the receiver. The topology <strong>of</strong> the energy transfer can be either emissions or susceptibil-<br />
ity, depending on whether the focus <strong>of</strong> the study is on the generated noise or on the<br />
received one.<br />
Historically, the first organization to introduce standards to limit the electromagnetic<br />
pollution was the Comité International Special des Perturbationd Radioelectriques (CISPR),<br />
founded in 1934, now part <strong>of</strong> International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its inten-<br />
tion was initially just to protect the sound broadcast services; however nowadays all<br />
electronic equipment is both very sensitive to EMI and can produce interference at high<br />
frequencies because its internal signals (e.g. clock signals) have frequency in the order<br />
<strong>of</strong> several Mega Hertz. Because <strong>of</strong> this, now, numerous national and international orga-<br />
nizations issue norms related to various aspects <strong>of</strong> EMC based upon CISPR expertise,<br />
limiting specific EMI emissions for internal use by individual countries and organiza-<br />
tions, such as armed forces or large corporations. Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> electric apparatus<br />
and systems must comply with the national standards before being allowed to access<br />
the market [2].<br />
Standards define the admissible emissions, the measuring setup, the testing circuit lay-<br />
out and the source impedance too. Standards are in continuous evolution, trying to<br />
match as close as possible the real conditions that an equipment will find on the field.<br />
However this is not an easy task; for example to standardize the test procedure a LISN<br />
is usually specified as a source impedance, but its 50 Ohm impedance are not always a<br />
good approximation for the generator source impedance, for power converters usually<br />
it is much lower. This could lead to a design for an equipment that will pass the lab<br />
test because it will be designed to accomplish the standard, but when tested in the real<br />
environment it will fail because the actual test conditions will be much different.<br />
Electronic systems that are electromagnetically compatible with their environment im-<br />
plies that they do not produce nor are they susceptible to interference, or in other terms,<br />
they must satisfy three criteria [10]:<br />
• It does not cause interference with other systems.<br />
• It is not susceptible to emissions from other systems.<br />
• It does not cause interference with itself.<br />
This in not important just for a functional performance, it is also a legal requirement<br />
that must be satisfied before the appliance can be sold, therefore EMC design have<br />
become an integral part <strong>of</strong> any equipment design.<br />
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