15.1 Power Supply Connections and Board Layout

Refer to Technical Note TN221, PC Board Layout Suggestions for the Rabbit 3000 Microprocessor, for recommendations on laying out a PC board to minmize EMI emsis- sions.

15.2 Using the Clock Spectrum Spreader

The spectrum spreader is very powerful for reducing EMI because it will reduce all sources of EMI above 100 MHz that are related to the clock by about 15 dB. This is a very large reduction since it is common to struggle to reduce EMI by 5 dB in order to pass government tests.

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Figure 15-1. Peak Spectral Amplitude Reduction from Spectrum Spreader

The spectrum spreader modulates the clock so as to spread out the spectrum of the clock and its harmonics. Since the government tests use a 120 kHz bandwidth to measure EMI, spreading the energy of a given harmonic over a wider bandwidth will decrease the amount of EMI measured for a given harmonic. The spectrum spreader not only reduces the EMI measured in government tests, but it will also often reduce the interference cre- ated for radio and television reception.

The spectrum spreader has three settings under software control (see Table 15-1and Table 15-2): off, standard spreading and strong spreading.

Two registers control the clock spectrum spreader. These registers must be loaded in a spe- cific manner with proper time delays. GCM0R is only read by the spectrum spreader at the moment when the spectrum spreader is enabled by storing 0x080 in GCM1R. If GCM1R is cleared (when disabling the spectrum spreader), there is up to a 500-clock delay before the spectrum spreader is actually disabled. The proper procedure is to clear GCM1R, wait for 500 clocks, set GCM0R, and then enable the spreader by storing 0x080 in GCM1R.

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