EMI Filter Design, 3rd Edition

Preface

In today’s world of Internet TV, 4G cell phones, the ever-growing list of exotic coffee blends, and the iPad, who would think for even a moment that it would still be necessary to add large, strangely shaped components into equipment to ensure that EMC regulations are met? Has time stood still for EMI? Perhaps software should be providing this functionality for us today? Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. EMI filters offer a means of protection between the outside world and the inner workings of our equipment. These filters are most often placed at the inputs of the equipment in order to restrict conducted noise emissions propagating to external electrical networks, which could damage or interfere with other electronic equipment ...