Chapter 15 Systems EMC

15.1 System versus product EMC

The title of this book is EMC for Product Designers and that is its primary focus. But many individual products, that is electronic equipment and apparatus, are actually put together in systems which are required to function as a whole. This then changes the EMC context. There are now two aspects to consider: the compatibility with each other of the various items of equipment within the system, which we can call intra-system EMC; and the compatibility of the whole system with its environment and with other systems and apparatus in that environment, which we can call inter-system EMC. A complete view must take into account both aspects.

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