Today's mobile phones and other portable devices are becoming smaller and thinner. At the same time, they are integrating more and more new functions or features, such as large-size display screen, high-resolution camera module, high-speed data interface, Internet access, TV reception, etc., making the data rate and clock frequency of portable devices higher and higher. In this way, portable devices are faced with many potential electromagnetic interference (EMI) / radio frequency interference (RFI) sources, such as switching load, power supply voltage fluctuation, short circuit, inductive switch, lightning, switching power supply, RF amplifier and power amplifier, interconnection between ribbon cable and video display screen, high-frequency noise of clock signal, etc. Therefore, designers need to select a suitable EMI / RFI filtering scheme for portable devices according to multiple locations such as audio jack / headset, USB port, speaker, keyboard, microphone, camera and display interconnection.For EMI / RFI filters, from the perspective of architecture, the most common architecture is "Pi" filter. As the name suggests, this architecture is similar to the Greek letter "". There are two common type filters: c-r-c (capacitance resistance capacitance) filter and c-l-c (capacitance inductance capacitance) filter. Among them, c-r-c filter (see Figure 1a) is also known as RC - filter or RC filter, which is used for audio and low-speed data filtering applications; C-l-c filter (see Fig. 1b) is also called LC - filter or LC filter, which is used for audio, low-speed and high-speed data filtering applications. filter also has an expansion type, that is, ladder shaped filter. The most common is LC (inductance capacitance) ladder filter (see Fig. 1c). This filter bears higher data rate, but when the filter elements (inductance or capacitance) increase, the size and cost will become a problem, resulting in higher material cost and larger packaging.Figure 1: structural diagram of common EMI / RFI filter types: a) type RC; b) type LC; c) LC ladder.Among these types of EMI / RFI filters, from the comparison of frequency amplitude response, type RC filter has the widest transition band and the lowest rolloff; - type LC filter has low turning rate but moderate transition band; Trapezoidal filter can achieve very high turning rate and narrow transition bandwidth.In terms of EMI / RFI filtering, taking mobile phone applications as an example, a traditional reference frequency is 800 MHz, because 800 MHz is close to the starting frequency of the frequency band used by mobile phones. In most cases, mobile phone design engineers require filtering at frequencies above 800 MHz, which generally means a minimum signal attenuation of 30 dB. With the increase of functions in mobile phones and the classification of clock and data signals, the reference frequency is decreasing. Many portable electronics manufacturers require EMI / RFI filtering at 400 MHz and may require EMI / RFI filtering at lower frequencies in the future.Integrated EMI filtering and ESD protectionIn portable products, the filter is generally located adjacent to the connection port, microphone and speaker. These locations may also face electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. Taking the audio line as an example, if the discrete component scheme is adopted for EMI filtering and ESD protection respectively, the number of components required to perform these two functions will be faced. For EMI filter, if a discrete type LC filter is used, two surface mount capacitors and one surface mount inductor are required. In order to provide ESD protection, an additional type of surface mount transient voltage suppressor (TVS) diode needs to be added. In this way, EMI filtering and ESD protection of an audio line require four independent components. The precious space of portable devices occupied by these components has not been mentioned here. If there is more than one audio line, it is more impractical to adopt the discrete component scheme.Therefore, the simplest solution is to integrate EMI filtering and ESD protection functions in the same element. Firstly, the integrated TVS diode in the integration scheme also provides the capacitance required for EMI filtering; Secondly, improving the process technology can also greatly improve the quality of integrated inductors. By integrating these integrated components into the silicon wafer, the original scheme that requires multiple independent components can adopt the integrated EMI filtering ESD protection scheme (see Figure 2).Among them, in terms of ESD protection level, IEC61000-4-2 standard specifies the system level test conditions and protection levels in detail, which are divided into four types. Portable applications usually need level 4 protection, that is, under the IEC61000-4-2 test conditions of 8 kV contact discharge or 15 kV air discharge, portable equipment needs to be able to withstand the impact of ESD events.In general, by cost-effective integration of EMI filtering and ESD protection, portable application designers can reduce costs, reduce the number of bill of materials (BOM) components, and reduce the space occupied by circuit boards.EMI filtering ESD protection scheme for specific application of portable equipmentIn the portable device market, mobile phones occupy an important position. Naturally, many locations in the mobile phone will be applied to filters with integrated ESD protection. For mobile phone applications, in addition to LC and RC filters, there are common mode choke EMI filters, which help reduce parasitic inductance and provide better common mode filtering. The type bandwidth spectrum of these mobile phone filters is shown in Figure 3.Figure 3: bandwidth spectrum of mobile phone filter type.Different mobile phone applications need different filters. Generally speaking, the higher the data rate of the application, the smaller the total capacitance of the filter line. For mobile phone applications with relatively low data rate such as audio lines, the standard capacitance of EMI filter in the range of hundreds of PF is enough to provide excellent filtering performance and minimum signal interference.Among them, in audio applications such as speakers, microphones, audio jacks / headphones, LC or RC filters can be selected, such as nuf2441fct1g, nuf2450mut1g, nuf2114mnt1g, nuf2116mnt1g and nuf420mnt1g of ansenmey semiconductor. These filters are integrated with ESD protection function to protect 2 to 4 audio lines, and the diode capacitance is between tens of PF and 240 PF. Taking nuf2441fc as an example, this LC filter provides EMI filtering and IEC61000-4-2 level 4 ESD protection functions for two audio lines. It is encapsulated by flip chip, and a single IC replaces two inductors, four capacitors and four TVs diodes to help save cost and reduce the occupied space of the circuit board.Nuf2450mut1g is also a two-wire LC type EMI filter and ESD protection device, providing attenuation greater than - 30 dB in the frequency range of 800 MHz to 5.0 GHz; This device uses space saving udfn 1.2 one point eight The 0.5mm ultra small package provides a 20 MHz cut-off frequency and minimal line impedance, which is ideal for audio applications requiring low bandpass attenuation. Nuf2114mnt1g is a two-wire RC type EMI filter and ESD protection device. It is packaged in dfn8 and provides attenuation greater than - 30 dB at the frequency of 900 MHz to 3.0 GHz. It also replaces up to 10 discrete components with a single IC to help reduce cost and save space.In mobile phone applications, the bandwidth of data lines such as display screen and camera is higher than that of audio, and RC filter can be used. For example, ansenmey semiconductor adopts a series of devices such as nuf40xx, nuf60xx and nuf80xx encapsulated by udfn. In addition, ansenmey semiconductor also launched X3 series RC filters in very small wdfn / udfn packages for data line filtering applications, including nuf4310mn and nuf4110mn. This new series of 4-channel RC filters has a line capacitance of only 17 pf at 2.5 V and integrates 40 discrete components to provide a very small footprint (1.0 one point four 0.75 mm/1.0 one point six 0.75 mm), extremely low impedance (100 ) and industry-leading ESD protection (IEC61000-4-2 level 4), supporting up to 120 Mbps bandwidth, suitable for high-resolution camera module and display screen of portable products such as mobile phone, mobile interconnection device (MID), portable media player (PMP), digital camera, laptop or netbook.In the above data applications such as high-resolution display screen of mobile phone and camera interface, high-speed LC filter can also be used, such as nuf2900mn of ansenmey semiconductor. Compared with the traditional RC filter, the high-speed LC filter has higher cut-off frequency, greater broadband attenuation and lower insertion loss. For example, the typical cut-off frequency of nuf2900mn is 350 MHz, which provides attenuation greater than - 30 dB at frequencies from 800 MHz to 6.0 GHz, and the insertion loss performance is also more advantageous. See Figure 4.Figure 4: comparison of response performance between typical RC EMI filter and high-speed LC EMI filter (nuf2900).It is worth mentioning that there are more and more high bandwidth applications in mobile phones, with larger display size, higher resolution and limited space, which promote the conversion of parallel data to serial data. The solution is to use low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) to serial MDDI, MPPI, USB 2.0 and userdes data, and adopt common mode choke (CMC) EMI / RFI filter accordingly, Through the high bandwidth differential signal, the unwanted common mode EMI / RFI signal is filtered at the same time. In this regard, the nuc2401mn high-speed serial data filter of ansenmey semiconductor can be used. This is the industry's first CMC filter integrating ultra-low capacitance (0.8 PF) ESD protection and common mode filtering technology, using a small 2.0 In 2.2 mm DFN package, a single element is suitable for a variety of high-speed designs such as USB2.0 (480 Mbps), IEEE1394 (400 Mbps), MDDI (up to 550 Mbps), Mipi (up to 1.0 Gbps) and HDMI 1.2 (up to 1.32 Gbps per channel), eliminating common mode noise and providing pure data stream for these applications.Figure 5: integrated CMC filter nuf2401mn with ultra-low Capacitance ESD protection for high-speed applications such as USB2.0.It is worth mentioning that nuc2401mn provides better ESD clamping performance compared with silicon competitive devices with a capacitance of less than 1 PF. It is very suitable for EMI filtering and ESD protection applications of high-speed data lines.summaryWith the improvement of data rate and clock frequency, portable devices such as mobile phones increasingly need high-performance EMI filtering and ESD protection schemes. Ansenmey Semiconductor provides a new integrated EMI filter. While providing excellent EMI / RFI filtering performance, it also provides ESD protection function in accordance with IEC61000-4-2 level 4 standard. A single IC replaces 10 or even dozens of discrete components. It is very suitable for audio and data line applications in portable applications such as mobile phones.Source; Mobile China