EMC/EMI/ESD STANDARDS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT (ITE)
AND RELATED (GENERIC) EQUIPMENT
John R. Barnes
11 JUL 2002
jrbarnes@iglou.com
These documents summarize international electromagnetic compatibility (EMC),
electromagnetic interference (EMI), and electrostatic discharge (ESD) standards
for information technology equipment (ITE) and related (generic) equipment.
These documents are mainly aimed at:
- Engineers/managers who have products that must be EMC/EMI/ESD-tested to
be marketed and used in their intended markets.
- Test personnel who will plan, run, and evaluate these EMC/EMI/ESD tests.
Our intent is to direct you to all of the EMC/EMI/ESD test standards that *may*
apply to your particular product(s) and your intended market(s). By carefully
reviewing these standards, you can determine:
- Your product does not fall within the scope of the standard- thus it
does not have to be tested.
- Your product is exempt because of low-power operation, clock speed,
lack of processor, or other reason- thus it complies without testing.
- Your product must be tested to certain test limits and performance
criteria.
OR
- If your product fails a particular test, you may still be able to meet
a market's EMC/EMI/ESD requirements under an amendment or another
standard, at least for a limited time. (Letting you put the product on
the market while you continue to fight the problem.)
These webpages briefly summarize the following groups of EMC/EMI/ESD standards:
NOTE: ??? means that no withdrawal date has been published for this standard,
as of the date of this document.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank John Fessler, Helge Knudsen, Dan Kinney, Scott Douglas,
Michael Loerzer, and Richard Woods for their help on this project.
DISCLAIMER
These documents are freely offered to anyone who wishes to use them. No
warranty for their use is expressed or implied. The most-current versions may
be downloaded from the dBi Corporation web site
http://www.dbicorporation.com/.
The information in these documents is believed to be correct, as far as it goes,
because they are based strictly on the FCC regulations, Official Journal of the
European Communities (OJ) and the test standards themselves- see
Bibliography.
Nevertheless, please base your decisions on the current FCC regulations,
appropriate issue(s) of the OJ, the pertinent test standard(s), and their
amendments.
The "References standards:" and "Referenced by standards:" sections in
particular are known to be incomplete. These sections can only be filled out by
referring to the exact test standard/amendment. And we are reluctant to spend
up to several hundred dollars buying a standard, when the OJ or another
standard tells us that it is identical to one we already own!
COMMENTS
If you refer to one or more of these documents in written communications, please
attribute them to
http://www.dbicorporation.com/.
Similarly, if you link to them from your own web page(s), we would appreciate
an E-mail to
jrbarnes@iglou.com giving the
universal resource link (URL) so that we may provide a reciprocal link.
Please send critiques, corrections, and/or additions to
jrbarnes@iglou.com , or
by snailmail to:
John Barnes
dBi Corporation
216 Hillsboro Ave
Lexington, KY 40511-2105
dBi Corporation is an
A2LA-Accredited EMC/EMI/ESD test house based in Lexington, Kentucky. We
test information technology equipment (ITE) and related products for
manufacturers/distributors of these products. We also offer training,
consulting, and design review services in these areas.
We are closely associated with Robust Electronic Design
, Inc., which researches topics of general interest to the electronics
industry. This web site is shared by both companies, and may be accessed via
http://www.dbicorporation.com/
or http://www.r-e-d-inc.com/
Both companies may be contacted by E-mail at
jrbarnes@iglou.com or by
snail-mail at:
dBi Corporation
216 Hillsboro Ave
Lexington, KY 40511-2105
OR
Robust Electronic Design, Inc.
216 Hillsboro Ave
Lexington, KY 40511-2105
Last revised July 11, 2002.
