Hi Junfeng, Your question is more appropriate for the EMC Discussion Group. However since I wear both the hats, I may be able to give you an answer. The main difference between Conducted and Radiated emissions is in the frequency range. Conducted emissions are measured off the power cord of your system between 150 kHz and 30 MHz. Radiated emissions are measured from 30 MHz to 1GHz and higher, depending on the highest frequency being generated in your system. The main causes of conducted emissions are the switching power supplies, and low frequency digital circuits (which clock below 30 MHz). The modern cores run at hundreds of MHz and even GHz, so emissions caused by digital switching will not show up as conducted emissions. The core switching will cause radiated emissions, which can couple to the outside world through PCB traces, or common-mode coupling from Power and Ground planes. Regards, Ravinder Server PCB Development Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Email: Ravinder.Ajmani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx "jun feng" <junfeng.zhou@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/31/2008 04:17 AM To si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [SI-LIST] Difference between conducted and radiated emission ? Hi, Can anyone tell me the difference between conducted and radiated emission, especially for digital circuits ?? For instance, inside a large size digital core what is responsible for the conducted and what is for radiated emission ? regards, Junfeng ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu