No Bulk Capacitor, No Problem: Inside TI's Single-Stage Micro Inverter Demo at PCIM
A single-stage AC/DC micro inverter eliminates the intermediate 400V bus capacitors that limit the service life of conventional two-stage designs. The TI TIDM-01035ME2 at PCIM showed what that looks like...
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Two Oscilloscopes, One Wolfspeed Board: How Keysight Tackles the High-Side Measurement Problem at PCIM
One Wolfspeed SiC evaluation board. Two Keysight oscilloscopes — 1 GHz 14-bit on the left, 6 GHz 16-bit on the right. Same DUT, different measurement questions, different instrument tiers. The...
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The World's Only Fibre Optic Isolated Oscilloscope: Why Cleverscope CS548 Exists and What It Solves
How do you measure the high-side gate voltage in a GaN inverter when the switching node swings at 100 V/ns? The Cleverscope CS548 uses fibre optic isolation — 2kV between...
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Adaptive Gate Current Shaping: How Bosch EG120 Solves the Parallel SiC-MOSFET Balancing Problem
Two SiC MOSFETs in parallel will never have exactly the same threshold voltage. That nanosecond difference creates transient current imbalance that degrades reliability over a vehicle's lifetime. The Bosch EG120...
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Measuring the Invisible: Isotropic EMF Measurement Up to 8 GHz and What WiFi 6E Changed
WiFi 6E opened the 6 GHz band. Most existing isotropic EMF measurement systems stopped just below it. The R&S TS-EMF with the new TSEMF-B2E antenna extends coverage to 8 GHz...
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LISN + EMI Receiver + a Light Bulb: The Conducted Emissions Test That Every Product Needs
Three things: a LISN, a light bulb, and an EMI receiver measuring from 9 kHz to 30 MHz. This is the conducted emissions test that every electrical product sold in...
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EMC & REGULATORY TESTING OF DUT WITH RADIO FUNCTIONALITY
An AVM FRITZ!Box WiFi router as the device under test. An instrument rack worth six figures keeping its radio link alive while the EMC measurement runs. The R&S TS8996 solves...
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Testing Automotive Radar in an EMC Storm: What Happens When 77 GHz Meets Interference
A speedometer showing radar-detected velocity — in real time, under active EMC interference. The R&S automotive radar testing demo at Cologne closed the gap between functional radar validation and EMC...
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Compliance Testing Up to 44 GHz — And a Robot to Run It
A yellow robot arm positioning antennas in a miniature semi-anechoic chamber. Two ESW EMI receivers running in parallel to 44 GHz. 510 MHz FFT bandwidth for gapless CISPR band coverage....
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Differential Mode vs Common Mode: Why Splitting EMI at the Source Changes Everything
Differential mode and common mode EMI require different filters, different measurements, and different debug strategies. The R&S RTO G + ZES Zimmer LMG671 joint booth at Cologne showed what it...
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The Microwave Oven on the Test Bench: What 225 MHz Real-Time Bandwidth Is Actually For
A microwave oven generates multi-decade, multi-mechanism EMI — from TRIAC switching harmonics at 150 kHz through magnetron broadband emission at 2.45 GHz and beyond. The TDEMI G Series at 225...
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Synchronized, Automated, Multi-Band: The Keysight Approach to EMC and Wireless Coexistence Testing
869 MHz and 2.4 GHz monitored simultaneously, time-synchronized, with 100% probability of intercept and automated test sequencing. The Keysight multi-instrument coexistence demo at Cologne explained what it takes to validate...
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