Objective
The EC's Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive places considerable onus on electronics equipment manufacturers to ensure that their products comply by not causing electromagnetic interference. This project will establish a cost effective test monitor system, to assist SME's in being able to meet the EMC Directive with the minimum of additional manufacturing cost.
The developed technology has performed in accordance with the project objectives, and has produced an accurate and low cost EMC test device. The test cell enables accurate measurement of radiated emissions with a tolerance of approximately +/- 6dB. The radiated immunity performance is also good with the general performance within the -Odb/+6dB tolerance band although certain frequency areas exceed this to about +12dB.
The test cell provides good repeatability with positional tolerance of the EUT being approximately 20 mm. This confirms its applicability for use in the production environment.
The consortium have filed an application for a patent to protect the development.
The design of a novel monitor equipment forms the main technical deliverable of the project. The design of the monitor will use advanced software modelling of electromagnetic fields to facilitate the design of the case-work and the antenna arrays. Advances in RF anechoic material will be used to derive a suitably quiet EM environment within the monitor.
The monitor equipment will use standard low cost RF test equipment to support it, however a significant amount of software will be developed to execute the correlation algorithms and provide appropriate user interfaces. In addition to the above, the project will review the variance in manufactured product performance, and from this develop new design and manufacturing codes of practice for EMC.
The project will enhance the overall quality and reliability of electronic products manufactured in Europe. The consortium will provide the necessary resource to develop and exploit the developed technology.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics electromagnetism
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
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WA11 8LS Saint Helens
United Kingdom
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