RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-18 Thread jrbarnes
Gary, About 50% of our 100BASE-Tx cards require an additional 4-line common-mode choke between the transformer-filter and the RJ-45 connector, to meet Radiated Emissions limits with enough margin to satisfy our electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) folks. So we snuggle all three components as clo

RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-18 Thread Gary McInturff
Cook, Jack Subject: RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box John, Really good information there regarding treatment of chassis ground & evacuation of other layers. I'd add the comment that the layout of the signal etch between the transformer & the RJ45 connector (UTP) is al

RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-17 Thread Cook, Jack
domo.ieee.org Subject: Re: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box Jon, My department has developed ten generations of Ethernet adapters (10BASE2, 10BASE-T, 100BASE-Tx) for IBM/Lexmark printers since 1990. We have looked at, but so far have not used, integrated-magnetics connectors because w

Re: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-17 Thread jrbarnes
Jon, My department has developed ten generations of Ethernet adapters (10BASE2, 10BASE-T, 100BASE-Tx) for IBM/Lexmark printers since 1990. We have looked at, but so far have not used, integrated-magnetics connectors because we like having the option of putting a common-mode choke in between the

RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-17 Thread David_Sterner
(Richard) [mailto:rsto...@lucent.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:22 AM To: 'Jon Keeble'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box Jon, if your running high etherent freq. and the shield is NOT grounded, you might fail class A FCC/Cispr 2

RE: 10/100 base interface in a plastic box

2001-10-17 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
Jon, if your running high etherent freq. and the shield is NOT grounded, you might fail class A FCC/Cispr 22. Richard, -Original Message- From: Jon Keeble [mailto:j.kee...@fairlightesp.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 1:05 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: 10/100 base i