New Low Capacitance EMI Filters Bring Greater Immunity to Cell Phones New Low Capacitance EMI Filters Bring Greater Immunity to Cell Phones January 1, 2006 As video resolutions of LCDs and cameras in cell phones increase, data frequencies will exceed 40MHz, and traditional filter solutions have reached their technical limits for suppressing wireless EMI and ESD. To accommodate the increase in data rates without disrupting the video signal, designers can choose new low-capacitance, high-performance EMI filters discussed in this article. As the wireless market continues to grow, the next generation of cell phones will have more features, such as multiple color screens (at least two per phone) and high-resolution cameras with more than one million pixels. | ||Figure 1: Noise and ESD transmission paths around LCD modules. | Still driven by the trend toward compact designs, implementing high-resolution LCDs and cameras presents designers with multiple challenges, one of the main design considerations being the susceptibility of these new modules to electromagnetic interference (EMI). For many of today\'s popular cell phones, especially clamshell phones, the color LCD or camera CMOS sensor is connected to the baseband controller via a flexible or long-trace PCB that connects between the two main parts of the phone (top and bottom). On the one hand, the connection line will be interfered by the parasitic GSM/CDMA frequency radiated by the antenna. On the other hand, due to the introduction of high-resolution CMOS sensors and TFT modules, digital signals operate at higher frequencies, so that the connection line will generate EMI/RFI or may cause ESD hazards like an antenna. In short, in both cases, all these EMI and ESD interferences will destroy the integrity of the video signal and even damage the baseband controller circuit. In order to suppress these EMI radiations and ensure normal data transmission, several filter solutions can be considered, which can be achieved by using discrete RC filters or integrated EMI filters. | || Figure 2: GSM attenuation frequency corresponding to filter capacitors. |EMI and ESD noise suppression...
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