EMI is a plague upon power electronic design architectures, and it can be mitigated in numerous ways. Adding an EMI filter may seem like the most obvious choice, but there may be a better first step.

Those designers usually dread having to add a pesky electromagnetic-interference (EMI) filtering circuit to their nice, neat, and creative design.

Someone once said, “The time to worry about EMI is when you mix the silicon.” Not all components are made of silicon, and most of us don't get to work at that level, but the saying does remind us that ...