An Original Method for the Measurement of the Radiated Susceptibility of an Electronic System Using Induced Electromagnetic Nonlinear Effects

Abstract

Abstract-The objective of this paper is to propose an improved approach based on a novel nonintrusive method for easily assessing the high frequency CW EM radiated susceptibility of an electronic system by characterizing its nonlinear electromagnetic effects. For this purpose, we have developed a specific harmonic frequency detection system coupled with a mode stirrer reverberating chamber. We describe the principles of the method and study a generic device board which is representative of a real electronic system. We evaluate the EM susceptibility of a micro controller in full functional mode and the data exchanges with two types of external 8 Mb SRAM memories. We observe the EM radiated susceptibility of this device by a functional EMC analysis method; then we measure the harmonic frequency content and make a correlation with the EM susceptibility results. We obtain significant differences between the two memory devices, as a consequence of their different managements of internal voltage over stress. We are well aware that this method is currently not validated in industrial environments EMC. In this paper, we only want to show that the appearance of the highest harmonic level occurs only when DUT has the highest functional failure.

Scattering statistics in nonlinear wave chaotic systems

“…1). This is quite relevant to the work that investigates the electromagnetic field statistics created by nonlinear electronics inside a wave chaotic reverberation chamber, and it has a number of applications in the EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) community, such as electromagnetic immunity testing of digital electronics [41,42]. Another approach to observe nonlinear effects is to create a scattering system with amplitude dependent response.…”

Nonlinear wave chaos: statistics of second harmonic fields

“…A wave-chaotic microwave cavity with a nonlinear circuit feedback loop demonstrated subwavelength position sensing for a perturber inside a cavity [37]. Furthermore, investigation of the electromagnetic field statistics created by nonlinear electronics inside a wave chaotic reverberation chamber has a number of applications, including electromagnetic immunity testing of digital electronics [38,39].…”