Expert Insights

We are proud to carry on the tradition of sharing Banana Skins for the purpose of promoting education for EMI/EMC engineers.

In this article we will address less mainstream, non-typical EMC test chambers that are often used in automotive, military, and other pre-compliance types of test environments.

This column discusses the second- and third-order low-pass EMC filters.

Should I use the pin combinations in Table 2A or Table 2B per Human Body Model (HBM) standard JS-001?

The regular “Banana Skins” column was published in the EMC Journal, starting in January 1998.

This article looks at some of the reasons why the filters you may think will work often do not when they’re put into real circuits. So… let’s talk about why filters fail.

This article describes a practical approach to the design and build of a sleeve dipole antenna mandated by a custom EMC standard.

Let’s look at some examples of potential model deficiencies.

The Banana Skin columns were compiled by Keith Armstrong, of Cherry Clough Consultants Ltd, from items he found in various publications, and anecdotes and links sent in by the many fans of the column.

This article explains the operation of a balun that transforms an unbalanced antenna structure into a balanced one.