??? 03/15/07 01:22 Modified: 03/15/07 02:32 Read: times |
#135021 - Exactly! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Joseph said:
Reroute the trace so that it doesn't pass over the slot and your radiation will disappear. Exactly! Every single copper trace must be routed over the solid ground plane. Only by this the wave packets can undisturbedly propagate via the so formed transmission lines and the radiation is minimal, so minimal, that mostly you will not need additional shielding to meet the CE standards. Joseph said:
This is a handy thing to understand if you ever have to deal with a split plane. I have to every day! I do only (ONLY!) traverse the gap using a pi-low-pass-filter, with the serial component (resistor(s) or soft ferrite bead(s)) being "bend" over the gap like a bridge over a river AND with the caps sitting close to the gap, on both sides! My last project using an AT89S52 in combination with a fast 8-channel-12bit-ADC and a RS485-interface was so properly filtered and shielded, that the EMC guy was asking me during the CE radiation test: "Is your device powered-on at all?", because he couldn't find any radiation. The effective noise level on ADC inputs was less than 1/4LSB (300µV)! Kai |