Arturo Mediano teaches courses on EMC/EMI and Signal Integrity for Besser Associates. He is a frequent contributor to industry magazines and journals on these topics. This article appears in the "Practical Tips" section of InCompliance magazine.
Ferrites for EMI suppression are usually chosen looking for high (resistive) impedance at the frequency of interest; but, sometimes, that ferrite is not working as expected. Perhaps you have saturation effects?
Arturo Mediano is a professor at University of Zaragoza (Spain) and founder of The HF-Magic Lab®, a specialized laboratory for design, diagnostic, troubleshooting, and training in the EMI/EMC/SI and RF fields. He is also an instructor for Besser Associates (CA, USA) offering public and on site courses in EMI/EMC/SI/RF subjects.
Instructor Arturo Mediano has written an article for In Compliance magazine:
Digital and power electronic systems can reduce the radiated and conducted emissions profile using spread spectrum techniques. Typically, no more than 10-12dB can be obtained with those techniques but the result can be useful to comply with regulations...
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Instructor Arturo Mediano has published an article with In Compliance magazine on reducing VHF EMI from a flyback power supply.
Usually, EMC design guidelines in flyback literature are related with the switching effects of the output transistor to minimize emissions for conducted tests in the 9 kHz to 30 MHz range. But failure in radiated emissions in the VHF range is typical when testing the product for EMC compliance.
The electronics and electrical engineering tools section of the EEWeb site features several online calculators for RF and PCB related problems. The page also features links to graph paper templates (standard, log/log, etc.) that you can download and print as well as reference sheets on trigonometric identities, algebra, and integrals.
EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers is a one-stop guide that will help engineers and technicians who have products which fail to meet EMI/EMC regulatory standards. It provides “recipes” of simple, easily implemented, and inexpensive troubleshooting tools or aids that can be built by the engineer or the technician.
Background information on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
As practiced by many: designing for, and understanding EMC has been, and remains an ART more than a Science. However, it needn't be that way; using what you have learned in the proceeding pages, this page will attempt to remove some of the mystery from this subject--but NOT all!