Front cover -- EMC for Product Designers -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Legislation and standards -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What is EMC? -- Portable electronic devices in aircraft -- Interference to medical devices -- Thermostats -- The quacking duck -- Compatibility between and within systems -- Intra-system EMC -- Inter-system EMC -- When intra-system meets inter-system -- The scope of EMC -- Malfunction of control systems -- Immunity of data and programme processing -- Interference with radio reception -- Disturbances of the mains supply -- Power line telecoms -- Other EMC issues -- The compatibility gap -- Electromagnetic fields and human health -- ICNIRP basic restrictions -- Athermal effects -- Chapter 2: The EMC Directive -- History -- The New Approach Directives -- Background to the legislation -- The first EMC Directive -- The second EMC Directive -- What changes? -- Scope, requirements and exceptions -- The CE mark and the paperwork -- Manufacturing quality assessment -- Fixed installations -- Systems -- Implementation, enforcement and sanctions -- Compliance of apparatus with the Directive -- Self certification and internal production control -- The notified body -- Testing -- Using standards -- Action for compliance for a product manufacturer -- Chapter 3: The R&TTE Directive -- The implementation of the R&TTE Directive -- Scope -- Requirements -- The process of conformity assessment -- Procedures -- Classes of radio transmitter -- Notification -- Information requirements -- Marking of equipment and documentation -- Chapter 4: Commercial standards -- The standards making bodies -- The International Electrotechnical Commission -- CENELEC and ETSI -- Generic standards - emissions -- EN 61000-6-3: 2001 + A11: 2004 -- EN 61000-6-4: 2001 -- Main product standards: emissions -- EN 55011: 1998 + A1: 1999 + A2: 2002.

EN 55014-1: 2000 + A1: 2001 + A2: 2002 -- EN 55022: 1998 + A1: 2000 + A2: 2003 -- Generic standards - immunity -- EN 61000-6-1: 2001 -- EN 61000-6-2: 2005 -- Basic standards - EN 61000-3-X and -4-X -- EN 61000-3-X -- EN 61000-4-X -- Product standards -- Broadcast receivers and associated equipment -- Household appliances, electric tools and similar apparatus -- Lighting equipment -- Information technology equipment -- Professional AV and entertainment lighting equipment -- Equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use -- Fire, intruder and social alarm systems -- Telecommunication network equipment -- Radio equipment -- Marine navigation equipment -- Medical electrical equipment -- Future multi-media -- Other product standards -- Other standards not related to the EMC Directive -- FCC Rules -- Measurement standards -- RF emissions limits -- Chapter 5: Other standards and legislation -- Automotive -- The Automotive EMC Directive -- ISO, CISPR and SAE standards -- Vehicle manufacturers -- Specialist requirements -- Military -- DEF STAN 59-41 -- MIL STD 461 -- Aerospace -- DO-160/ED-14 -- Rail -- Railway Group Standards -- London Underground standards -- EN 50121 -- Part 2: Testing -- Chapter 6: RF emissions measurements -- Emissions measuring instruments -- Measuring receiver -- Spectrum analyser -- Receiver specifications -- Transducers -- Antennas for radiated field -- LISNs and probes for cable measurements -- Near field probes -- The GTEM for emissions tests -- Sites and facilities -- Radiated emissions -- Test methods -- Test set-up -- Test procedure -- Tests above 1GHz -- Military emissions tests -- Measurement uncertainty -- Applying measurement uncertainty -- Sources of uncertainty -- Chapter 7: Immunity tests -- RF immunity -- Equipment -- Facilities -- Test methods -- Conducted RF immunity -- Measurement uncertainty for RF immunity.

ESD and transient immunity -- ESD -- Electrical fast transient (EFT) bursts -- Surge -- Other transient immunity tests -- Sources of variability -- Measurement uncertainty for transient tests -- Military susceptibility tests -- Continuous LF and RF susceptibility -- Transient susceptibility -- Chapter 8: Low frequency tests -- Mains harmonic and flicker emission -- Equipment -- Test conditions -- Equipment classification and limits -- Flicker -- Magnetic field and power quality immunity -- Magnetic field -- Voltage dips and interrupts -- Chapter 9: Test planning -- The need for a test plan -- The requirements of accreditation -- The requirements of standards -- The requirements of the customer -- Contents of the test plan -- Description of the equipment under test (EUT) -- Statement of test objectives -- The tests to be performed -- EUT exercising software and ancillary equipment or simulators -- Requirements of the test facility -- Details of the test set-up -- How to evaluate test results -- Immunity performance criteria -- The generic criteria -- Interpreting the generic criteria -- Part 3: Design -- Chapter 10: Interference coupling mechanisms -- Source and victim -- Common impedance coupling -- Distributed near field coupling -- Mains coupling -- Radiated coupling -- Coupling modes -- Emissions -- Radiated emissions -- Conducted emissions -- Immunity -- Radiated field -- Transients -- Electrostatic discharge -- LF magnetic fields -- Supply voltage phenomena -- Mains harmonics -- The supplier's problem -- Non-linear loads -- Chapter 11: Layout and grounding -- Equipment layout and grounding -- System partitioning -- Grounding -- Ground systems -- PCB layout -- Ground layout without a ground plane -- Using a ground plane -- Configuring I/O and circuit grounds -- Rules for PCB layout -- Chapter 12: Digital and analogue circuit design.

Design for emissions control -- The Fourier spectrum -- Radiation from logic circuits -- Digital circuit decoupling -- Analogue circuits: emissions -- The switching power supply -- Other power switching circuits -- Design for immunity -- Digital circuits: interference paths -- Logic noise immunity -- Signal integrity and ground bounce -- The microprocessor watchdog -- Defensive programming -- Transient and RF immunity - analogue circuits -- Chapter 13: Interfaces and filtering -- Cables and connectors -- The mode of propagation -- Cable return currents -- Crosstalk -- Cable screens at low frequencies -- Cable screens at RF -- Types of cable screen -- Screened cable connections -- Unscreened cables -- Structured cabling: UTP versus STP -- Filtering and suppression -- Filter configuration -- Components -- Mains filters -- I/O filtering -- Transient suppression -- Contact suppression -- Chapter 14: Shielding -- Shielding theory -- Shielding theory for an infinite barrier -- LF magnetic fields -- The effect of apertures -- The shield as ground reference -- The image plane -- Shielding practice -- Shielding hardware -- Conductive coatings -- Windows and ventilation slots -- Shields on the PCB -- Standardization of enclosure SE -- Chapter 15: Systems EMC -- System versus product EMC -- Compliance requirements -- Functional requirements -- Earthing and bonding -- The purpose of the earth -- Installation techniques for multi-purpose earthing -- Earth conductors -- Bonding techniques -- Cabinets, cubicles and chambers -- Transfer impedance of the earth reference -- Layout and placement within the enclosure -- Conductive hardware -- Installation and maintenance of screened enclosures -- Cabling -- Cable classification, segregation and routing -- Parallel Earth Conductor (PEC) techniques -- Lightning protection.

How lightning phenomena can affect electronic apparatus -- Overview of design of a lightning protection system (LPS) -- Chapter 16: EMC management -- Managing the EMC process -- Putting EMC in context -- The EMC co-ordinator -- The design process -- The product specification -- Design rules -- Design reviews -- Identifying EMC-critical aspects -- Test management -- When to do the tests -- In-house or external? -- The various types of report -- Compliance during production and beyond -- Degrees of quality assurance -- Production QA testing -- Engineering change control -- The control plan and documentation for Directives -- The purpose of the control plan -- The EMC Assessment -- Contents -- Appendix A: Design checklist -- Appendix B: CAD for EMC -- Overview -- Modelling packages -- Circuit CAD -- Appendix C: Case studies -- Cockpit display -- Liquid tank sensor -- The problem with wall-warts -- The dipole problem: a box in two halves -- Appendix D: Useful tables and formulae -- The deciBel -- Antennas -- Fields -- Shielding -- Capacitance, inductance and PCB layout -- Filters -- Fourier series -- Appendix E: The EU and EEA countries -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.