The EM-Isight from APREL is a Robotic Near Field Scanner that can test devices operating from 10 kHz to 6 GHz. It is the first fully flexible EMI/EMC measurement system built on 5 or 6-axis articulated robots designed to support multiple applications and industries including networking, automotive, integrated circuits, aviation, military, and consumer products. This system can be used as a compliance system for IEC-61967-1-6 or a pre-compliance/development tool. Custom applications can be developed by the user for EM-ISight allowing for a completely customized test platform. It can conduct coarse scans with dynamic peak search function and track real-time topology analysis using dynamic touch detection.
The EM-Isight comes with a robot-mounted vision camera with a pixel size of 2.2 µm and auto zoom. The software supports user-defined parametric settings, user-defined pass/fail graphing, and graphical measurement data for statistical readout full 3/4D graphic package for visualization and manipulation of measured fields, storage and retrieval of measurement results. It performs EM near-field scanning on a PCB, IC, LCD, RFID tag, wireless module, or antenna for quality control and design optimization, pre-test, and certification.
EM-ISight is an affordable and easy-to-use system and is a true alternative to costly pre-compliance EMC chambers which have high maintenance costs and use significant floor space. Integration of high end Low Noise Amplifiers at the core of the transmission line yield low insertion loss and high unwanted field rejection of better than 25dBm. Easy setup for measurement profiles (less than 60 seconds) using the optional camera and touch detection allows complex topologies of a PCB to be taught in real time. This test system measures 80 x 50 x 70 cm (weighs 25 Kg) and the footprint of the system means that it can be introduced to most measurement environments with multiple frequency ranges and robot sizes to choose from.