ABSTRACT

It is an unfortunate fact of life that the operation of virtually all items of electrical and electronic equipment can potentially disturb the operation of other nearby items of electronic equipment. In recent years increasing incidence of interference has prompted the introduction of legislation that sets strict standards for the design of electrical and electronic equipment.The name given to this type of disturbance is electromagnetic interference (EMI) and the property of an electrical or electronic product (in terms of its immunity to the effects of EMI generated by other equipment and its susceptibility to the generation and radiation of its own EMI) is known as electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).