As of January 1, 1996, virtually all electrical and electronic products sold in Europe must pass stringent electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) tests per the European Union's EMC Directive.

The EMC Directive marks the beginning of EMC compliance requirements which are rapidly becoming global. Furthermore, these regulations are not static; they are already evolving in direct response to market pressures and new technologies.

Today's electronic products - computers, communications equipment and other electronic goods - offer unprecedented performance. The speed and data capacity of these products are due in large part to high speed, low voltage digital circuitry used in most sophisticated electronics. As speeds increase, these high performance circuits become increasingly vulnerable to pulsed electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Historically associated only with radio frequency interference, today the definition of EMI has been expanded to include new threats such as ESD, EFT, SURGE and Power Quality Failure (PQF).

Without question, it is far less expensive to design EMC measures into products at the onset of development, than it is to re-design them later.

Pulsed EMI disturbances such as ESD, EFT, Surge and PQF, both visible and invisible, range in intensity from lightning bolts to normal switch arcing, to small but potentially disastrous electrostatic discharges from the human touch, or even furniture. The blips and bumps caused by these sparks, typically involve very high power or extremely fast rise times. Switching operations and faults in the power distribution system may impact the very quality of ac power mains voltage on which virtually all electronic equipment depends.

KeyTek offers totally integrated, upgradable modular EMC test systems that provide the means to address on-going global EMC regulations in a manner that is both technically advanced and economically feasible.

The precision with which KeyTek pulsed EMI test systems perform reduces overtest which may indicate unnecessary re-engineering and increased unit production expense due to over protection; it also eliminates undertest which can leave your equipment open to user rejection when standards are not used.

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