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In Australia at least, pretty much any electronic device has to be tested to ensure unintended radiation emission between 9kHz and (I kid you not) 400GHz is wit
by stephen_g 15y ago
In Australia at least, pretty much any electronic device has to be tested to ensure unintended radiation emission between 9kHz and (I kid you not) 400GHz is within acceptable limits before it gets a C-tick (similar to the CE certification) and be sold.
I think most of the time they stick the device in an anechoic chamber and take measurements at certain distances. For example, under the CISPR 22 standard (that information technology equipment with a supply voltage of less than 600V falls under) it must radiate less than 30dB (uV/m) of electromagnetic radiation between 30 to 230MHz, measured at a distance of 10 metres with a quasi-peak detector, less than 37dB at 230 to 1000MHz, and so on.
There are also restrictions of how much interference is caused from the power supply (which shouldn't apply to the Raspberri Pi) and how much EM is emitted from telecommunications ports on the board (which will apply to Ethernet, but probably not USB).
- polshaw 15y agoI am guessing that most PCB/PS -like electronics would pass this without any specific attention, given there were no major manufacturing defects? I'm a little unsure why TI made efforts to avoid it.. or just because they could?
- stephen_g 15y agoIt depends on how fast things are clocked on your board. For anything less than 100MHz, you wouldn't have to think about it. For faster clocks, you might have to be a little wary (but it should be fairly easy for such a low power device with proper ground and power planes, bypassing etc.)