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SMD Beads and Chokes Introduction
1.0 INTRODUCTION
To support designers and manufactu-
rers of electronic circuitry, FERROX-
CUBE manufactures a comprehensive
line of ferrite EMI-suppression products
for use on circuit boards, through-hole
as well as surface-mountable.
The demand for SMD-suppression
components is still growing. Therefore
FERROXCUBE has focused its effort
and expertise to develop new types and
sizes through a continuously optimized
design process to complete our SMD
selection:
• Low profiled SMD-bead for flat
designs
• SMD-Current Compensated
Chokes
• SMD-Wide Band Chokes
• Gapped SMD-bead for Power
inductor
Our recognized know-how and staff of
application engineers are the basis of
the technical support, which is entirely
at your disposal for your comments and
inquiries.
Well controlled manufacturing proces-
ses, automated production lines and
measuring equipment and a long expe-
rience in ferrites make FERROXCUBE a
flexible, capable and reliable partner,
able to advise and provide also custom-
designed products, either completely
new or similar to existing types.
FERROXCUBE offers smart solutions
to comply with the more and more
severe EMC norms and requirements:
our new SMD-components are suitable
to prevent generated interference and
to suppress incoming noise signals and
parasitic oscillations.
2.0 EMI INTERFERENCE
SUPPRESSION AND EMC
ELECTROMAGNETIC
COMPATIBILITY
With the ever increasing intensive use of
electronic equipment Electromagnetic
Compatibility (EMC) has become an
important issue. Since 1928 laws specify
limits of the level of interference caused
by equipment (EME; Electromagnetic
Emission) and also the sensitivity of
equipment to incoming interference
(EMS; Electromagnetic Susceptibility).
Limiting curves are defined by interna-
tional organizations and national agen-
cies such as CISPR, FCC in the USA, the
VDE in Germany and VCCI in Japan.
Since density of equipment increases,
laws will become more stringent in the
near future. EMC principles are explai-
ned in figure 1.
During the design phase, problems with
interference can be avoided to some
extent. Often additional suppression
components such as capacitors and
inductors will be necessary to meet the
required levels. Inductive components
are very effective in blocking interfering
signals, especially at high frequencies.
Capacitors are used as shunt impedance
(ZP) for the unwanted signal.
Unfortunately for high frequencies, most
capacitors do not have the low impedan-
ce one might except because of parasitic
inductance or resistance (Fig. 2).
Inductors (ZFXC) are used in series with
the load impedance (ZL). Most inducti-
ve interference suppression compo-
nents (choke, bead) are based upon a
ferrite core.
Figure 1. Principles of EMC