Recommendations

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5.5

Other signals

When designing an application, the EMC performance can be improved by closely studying:

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Signals for which a temporary disturbance affects the running process permanently

(the case of interrupts and handshaking strobe signals, and not the case for LED

commands).

For these signals, a surrounding ground trace, shorter lengths and the absence of

noisy and sensitive traces nearby (crosstalk effect) improve EMC performance.

For digital signals, the best possible electrical margin must be reached for the two

logical states and slow Schmitt triggers are recommended to eliminate parasitic states.

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Noisy signals (clock, etc.)

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Sensitive signals (high impedance, etc.)

5.6

Unused I/Os and features

All microcontrollers are designed for a variety of applications and often a particular

application does not use 100% of the MCU resources.

To increase EMC performance, unused clocks, counters or I/Os, should not be left free, e.g.

I/Os should be set to “0” or “1”(pull-up or pull-down to the unused I/O pins.) and unused

features should be “frozen” or disabled.

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