Electromagnetic immunity analysis using modal-equivalent circuit in cable interconnection system

Electromagnetic immunity analysis as well as electromagnetic emission analysis is significant for EMC design. In this paper, we apply a modal equivalent-circuit model with mode-conversion sources to electromagnetic immunity analysis in a simple cable interconnection system. The analysis can treat mode conversion caused by discontinuity in multi-conductor transmission line with circuit analysis and has been validated in electromagnetic emission analysis. The approach takes an advantage in less calculation sources and helps get design considerations compared with full-wave simulation. In this paper, common-mode excitation by a current probe in a simple cable interconnection system is investigated for model validation. As a result, it is demonstrated that the circuit analysis with the modal-equivalent circuit model agrees well with the measurement results.