Pulsed Current Injection Setup and Procedure to Reproduce Intense Transient Electromagnetic Disturbances

Abstract

In this letter, a pulse current injection (PCI) setup involving a pulse generator with adjustable parameters is designed and modeled in SPICE. In order to allow causal and accurate time-domain simulation, the circuit model makes use of an augmented network to approximate the non-rational frequency response of the injection probe. The obtained SPICE model is preliminary validated by measurement for different sets of values of the pulse-generator parameters. Afterward, an explicative example of radiated test setup is considered. The stress waveform induced at the points of entry of the equipment under test by radiation (evaluated either by theoretical prediction or by measurement in a low-level radiation environment) is taken as reference to prove the effectiveness of the proposed PCI-setup model in identifying the values of the generator parameters required to reproduce the same disturbance by PCI.