Hi All, A question came to me that I can't readily answer. Would a commercially available FPGA engineering development board be excluded from the EU EMC Directive? The board would be an enclosure-less development kit akin to a PC motherboard, but designed for use in FPGA engineering development applications (i.e. not for general consumer use).
I've scoured the ec.europa.eu provided "Guide for the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC (8th February 2010)", with particular attention paid to sections 1.1.2(.x), 1.1.5, and 1.2. Taking this document at face value, I am inclined to believe that this device is a non-excluded apparatus under the scope of the EMC directive. However, this doesn't sit well with my understanding of the intent of the directive. Has anyone received concrete direction for engineering development apparatuses that they would be willing to share and/or point to? (side note - I expected apparati, but apparently that's not the plural form) Thanks in advance, and Best Regards, -Dave Heald Note the best information about the device suggest that it is not subject to any more specific EMC content containing directive such as R&TTE, Medical Device, Marine, etc... - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
