Whitepaper
Essential Capabilities of EMI Receivers
This Keysight Technologies application note details essential capabilities of EMI receivers for compliance testing with CISPR 16-1-1 and MIL-STD-461 standards. It outlines the required detectors (Peak, Quasi-peak, Average) and reference bandwidths – ranging from 200Hz to 1MHz depending on frequency bands A through E (9kHz-18GHz) for CISPR, and specific RBWs from 10Hz to 1 MHz for MIL-STD-461. Crucially, it goes beyond mandatory features, highlighting the value of limit lines with editing capabilities, correction factors for transducers, signal lists storing up to 2000 results, tools for maximizing signal capture (including linked meters and spectrum analysis), time domain scanning, and diagnostic tools like amplitude distribution function (APD) and a spectrogram. The MXE EMI receiver is presented as an example of a platform incorporating these features.