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Contributing Authors: John de Rooij, Patrick Dijkstra, Jeffrey Westgeest and Sander Stuurop. Contributors: Ivette Rijswijk, Edwin vom Hofe, Ren Dijkstra. Copyright D.A.R.E!! Instruments 1996 2014 All Rights Reserved. Printed in the European Community. Notice The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. If you find any problems in the documentation, please report them to us in writing or per email: [email protected]. D.A.R.E!! Instruments does not warrant that this documentation is error-free. D.A.R.E!! Instruments makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. D.A.R.E!! Instruments shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of the RadiMation software and this manual. The information contained in this document describes how RadiMation can be configured and used to perform EMC measurements. For information how to perform the EMC measurement read the standard(s) that applies to the device under test. Restricted Rights Legend Use, duplication, or disclosure of the program is strictly limited to the owner of the license. Trademarks RadiMation, RadiSense, RadiPower, RadiCal, RadiMate, RadIO, RadiCentre, RadiLink, RadiGen are registered trademarks of D.A.R.E!! Instruments. Microsoft, FoxPro, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visual Basic, Windows, Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. ACT! is a registered trademark of Symantec and/or Interact Commerce Company. Acrobat is a registered trademark of Adobe. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corp. NISpy and NI-488.2 are registered trademarks of National Instruments.

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RadiMation EMC software

1. Preface

2. Getting Started

3. EUT Information

4. Radiated immunity

5. Conducted immunity

6. Pulsed immunity

7. Radiated emission

8. Conducted emission

9. Antenna Diagram

10. EUT monitoring and control

11. Sequence testing

12. Calibration

13. Report generator

14. Configuration

15. Device Drivers

16. Quality Assurance

17. Quality statement

18. Reference Data

19. Appendice

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1 Preface Thank you for purchasing RadiMation Version 2014.2 EMC test software from D.A.R.E!! Instruments. RadiMation is a professional EMC test software package, used for full compliant EMC testing as well as pre-compliance testing and engineering purposes. RadiMation is developed and written in close co-operation with EMC test engineers of D.A.R.E!! Consultancy and EMC experts of other test houses. Due to the direct feedback between test engineers and software developers, the software is ideally matched to the needs of EMC test engineers. Our software engineers told me "they had forgotten to implement the software bugs". However, I am afraid this is wishful thinking. Version 2014.2 contains many new features you will find useful. To mention some: repetition interval detection for multiband emission tests, user interface usability improvements, more powerful configurable device drivers and improved stability. Of course, like any software package, improvement of functionality and new features will always be needed. Your suggestions for any changes are welcome and will be studied for implementation in new updates of the software. We hope you will find the RadiMation EMC test software as useful as we think it is. Ing. P.W.J. Dijkstra Technical Director D.A.R.E!! Instruments Woerden, The Netherlands 2014 May

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------- Getting started ------- Table of contents: 2 Getting started................................................................................................................................ 4

2.1 Software overview ................................................................................................................ 4 2.2 Hardware and software requirements ................................................................................... 6

2.2.1 Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1.1 Memory .................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1.2 GPIB card ................................................................................................................. 6

2.2.2 Software requirements ...................................................................................................... 7 2.2.2.1 Microsoft office ........................................................................................................ 7 2.2.2.2 Installation ................................................................................................................ 7

2.3 Conventions .......................................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Software installation ............................................................................................................. 8

2.4.1 First time software installation ......................................................................................... 8 2.4.2 Software installation on a network ................................................................................... 8 2.4.3 Installing software updates ............................................................................................. 10

2.5 User rights and installation ................................................................................................. 10 2.5.1 Upgrade .......................................................................................................................... 10 2.5.2 New installation .............................................................................................................. 10

2.6 Software configuration ....................................................................................................... 10 2.6.1 Password protection ....................................................................................................... 11 2.6.2 Test engineers ................................................................................................................. 12 2.6.3 Default address information configuration .................................................................... 13 2.6.4 Default Units .................................................................................................................. 14 2.6.5 Default directories configuration ................................................................................... 16 2.6.6 Device driver configuration ........................................................................................... 17

2.6.6.1 Virtual device drivers ............................................................................................. 20 2.6.7 Graphics configuration ................................................................................................... 20 2.6.8 Database Configuration .................................................................................................. 22

2.6.8.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 22 2.6.8.2 Changing the customer database driver ................................................................. 22

2.6.9 Language Selection ........................................................................................................ 27

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2.6.10 Product Standard ........................................................................................................ 28 2.6.10.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 28 2.6.10.2 Adding a Product Standard ................................................................................ 28 2.6.10.3 Add(ing) Basic Standard(s) ............................................................................... 30

2.6.11 Basic Standard ........................................................................................................... 31 2.6.12 Test equipment list configuration .............................................................................. 33

2.7 User configurable device drivers ....................................................................................... 34 2.8 EUT files ............................................................................................................................ 35

2.8.1 Creating a new EUT file ................................................................................................ 36 2.8.2 Opening an existing EUT file ........................................................................................ 36 2.8.3 Cable information of the EUT ....................................................................................... 37

2.9 Limit line files .................................................................................................................... 38 2.9.1 Creating limit lines ........................................................................................................ 38

2.9.1.1 Entering data points ............................................................................................... 39 2.9.2 Saving limit line files ..................................................................................................... 40

2.10 Correction files .................................................................................................................. 40 2.10.1 Creating correction files ............................................................................................ 40 2.10.2 Saving correction files ............................................................................................... 41

2.11 Using Test Setup Files (T.S.F.) ......................................................................................... 41 2.12 Viewing test data ............................................................................................................... 42 2.13 Printing test data ................................................................................................................ 43 2.14 Report generation ............................................................................................................... 43 2.15 Ambient information ......................................................................................................... 43


2 Getting started

2.1 Software overview RadiMation consists of 7 separate software modules to perform 5 different types of EMC tests, calibrations, automatic report generation and sequence testing. The different modules are integrated in one single software package. The separate modules are:

1. Radiated immunity testing (RI)

2. Conducted immunity testing (CI)

3. Pulsed immunity (ESD, EFT, Surge)

4. Radiated emission testing (RE)

5. Conducted emission testing (CE)

6. Calibration

7. Report generator

The combination of the different software modules in one software package has a number of advantages compared to other software packages: Easy to use software by implementation same "look & feel" over all modules. Seamless data exchange between the different software modules. Calibration functionality included in the package enables easy exchange of calibration files. Different types of tests can be performed, fully automatic after each other (Sequence testing). Fast automatic report generation, made possible by one data repository for all test data. The figure below represents an overview of the RadiMation software:



The RadiMation Core consists of the following components: The Visual and Graph System The EUT data management System Sequence Testing Calibration Data Logging Database Functionality The Device Driver System Depending on the requirement, one ore more modules can be added to the RadiMation Core. Version 2014.2 of the RadiMation package contains the following modules:

1. Radiated immunity

2. Conducted immunity

3. Pulsed immunity

4. Radiated emission

5. Conducted emission


6. Report generator

2.2 Hardware and software requirements RadiMation has some requirements for the PC(-environment) that is used to perform the EMC tests on.

2.2.1 Hardware requirements The RadiMation software extensively makes use of data calculations, bus interactions (to control the test equipment) and screen interactions (for the use of graphs). For this reason, processor performance is quite important and a dedicated PC is required for RadiMation. Running other programs on the same computer can cause compatibility problems and is not supported. Programs which are used by RadiMation(like Word, Excel and MySQL) are supported to be used with RadiMation. To use the software to its full extent, we require the following hardware configuration: Processor type: 2 GHz minimum, > 3 GHz recommended Free RAM memory: 512 MB minimal, > 1 GB recommended Free hard disk space: 1 GB minimal Monitor: SXGA (1280 x 1024) or larger. (at least 1280 pixels wide and at least 900 pixels high) IEEE card: Any GPIB Card that is supported by the National Instruments NI-488.2 Software

Library

2.2.1.1 Memory RadiMation needs a considerable amount of memory to perform at its best. As a guiding line there should be at least 512 MB (Mega Bytes) of free memory. Free memory is defined as the amount of free RAM without having to use the swap file. Thus, not the specification of the total amount of memory that the machine has. So, how do you determine the amount of free memory?

1. Cold boot your machine from power off, so no hibernate or restart.

2. Determine the total amount of memory put into the computer.

3. Start the windows task manager and determine the commit charge.

4. Calculate the amount of free memory by subtracting the amount of memory from point three from the amount of memory from point two.

If the amount of free memory is less then 512 MB there are several options to obtain more free memory, depending on the configuration and situation: Insert additional memory modules into the machine. Remove/uninstall programs with large memory usage and that do not involve measuring, for

example VNC viewers. Prevent that programs are started automatically during the booting of the computer.

2.2.1.2 GPIB card The GPIB hardware and software needs to be installed correctly before the installation of RadiMation. If the card is not installed before the installation, D.A.R.E!! is not responsible for any



additional costs or delays that may occurs if the card is not installed. The GPIB Card has to be a card that is supported by the National Instruments NI-488.2 software library.

2.2.2 Software requirements The RadiMation software will operate (and is tested) with the Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit) and Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating systems. RadiMation is using Microsoft Office Word, to generate and print the printout's. It is therefore required that Microsoft Office Word is installed.

2.2.2.1 Microsoft office The components of the Microsoft office suite must be fully installed and working, before they can be used for report generation. The formats in which the RadiMation report generator can create reports in are: Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel

2.2.2.2 Installation During the installation a network/PC administrator from the IT department must be available. This person must have access in granting rights, for one day or more. Also this person must have knowledge of the network situation. D.A.R.E!! is not responsible for any additional costs or delays that may occurs if this support can not be provided. The first time RadiMation is installed, it needs to be installed with administrator rights. Upgrades have no need for full rights (although rights to perform installations are required). For an update the following rights needs to be set: Read rights for the 'C:\' drive Full rights for the installation directory (e.g. 'C:\Program Files\Dare Development' or

'C:\Program Files\Dare Instruments', please note that the path may be different depending on the used OS and language.)

2.3 Conventions RadiMation makes use of the Windows structure of pull down menus. In this manual, the pull down menus are described in the following way:

File Open EUT

The above example shows that first the File item from the menu bar should be selected, and after that the Open item and then the EUT item to show the file open selection window.


2.4 Software installation

2.4.1 First time software installation To install the RadiMation software please insert the RadiMation CD in the CD-ROM drive of your computer. The setup program of RadiMation should now start automatically. If the program doesn't start automatically, run E:\setup.exe (where E:\ is the letter of your CD-ROM drive) from the CD. The Installation Wizard will guide you through the installation process. After installation, the computer must be restarted before running RadiMation. Please see User rights and installation for the needed user rights and information for a first time installation.

2.4.2 Software installation on a network In a network environment multiple computers are connected with each other with a shared communication medium. Normally this has multiple advantages over a local installation. One of the benefits is that data can be shared between the connected computers. The RadiMation software is designed to optimally use this advantage. Therefore, all data that will be used or generated by RadiMation can also be shared on the network. Most of the time it is advised to use a network configuration over a local configuration.

Note: When RadiMation is making use of a network configuration the program will

still be executed from the local computer. Therefore, it is neither cached nor running directly from the network.

To fully use this functionality of sharing these data, the configuration of RadiMation should slightly be changed. In order to achieve this following these steps below.

1. Create a shared network directory with the appropriate rights on one of the Network Servers. Your Network Administrator can help you with this. This directory will be called from now on.

2. Create a drive assignment for this specific . For instance, this will avoid the use of excessive path depths. Your Network Administrator can also help you with this step.

3. Create a sub-directory with the name in the .



4. Copy the RadiMation setup.exe file from the CD-ROM (or directly from local disk if you downloaded RadiMation) to this directory in the .

5. Install RadiMation on one of the network computers. This can be done by launching the setup.exe program. Use the installation procedure as described in the previous section.

6. In the , create the following sub-directories:

CAL_File CONFDVDR COR_File EUT_File LLF_File Printout RGO_File RGT_File SEQ_File TSF_File

7. Start the installed RadiMation program, and open the Configuration window. On the Directories tab, change the location of the Device Driver Configuration directory to the CONFDVDR directory in the . (See Default directory configuration. Note: please wait changing the other directories.)

8. Restart the RadiMation program.

9. Open the Configuration window again and on the Directories tab, now change the location of all the other directories to the corresponding directories in the .

10. Restart the RadiMation program again.

11. From now on the RadiMation program will use the as its main data directory.

12. Start the Configuration of the RadiMation software as described in the remaining part of this chapter. The complete configuration will be written to the .

When the RadiMation software should be installed on another computer in the network, the following steps can be used.

1. Install the RadiMation software from the sub-directory in the . Use the installation procedure as described in the previous section.

2. Start the installed RadiMation program, and open the Configuration window. On the Directories tab, change the location of the Device Driver Configuration directory to the CONFDVDR directory in the .

3. Restart the RadiMation program

The newly installed RadiMation will now use the already configured .


2.4.3 Installing software updates Software updates are distributed on CD-ROM and can be retrieved from our webshop. To install the new RadiMation version, please insert the CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive of the computer. Run the installation program (i.e. E:\setup.exe, where E:\ is the CD-ROM drive letter). The setup program will detect that a previous version of RadiMation is already installed on your PC. The setup program will install the new RadiMation version at the same location as the already installed version. A back up of the previously installed version of RadiMation will be copied to the backup directory automatically. All the settings of the previous version will also be used for the new installed RadiMation version. When problems do occur with the newly installed RadiMation version, the old version of RadiMation can be recovered.

Note: Before installing a RadiMation update it is strongly advised that you completely

backup all your files and directories e.g. TSF/Sequence/Correction/Calibration and EUT.

Warning: Do NOT uninstall RadiMation!! This will cause removal of all user settings and TSF, sequence, calibration and correction files. This is unrecoverable.

If the already installed RadiMation version was installed from a network directory, the new setup file can be copied to the sub-directory of the . On each computer the new RadiMation version can then easily be installed from this directory.

2.5 User rights and installation This chapter describes the required rights a user must have in order to perform an installation or an upgrade of the RadiMation software.

2.5.1 Upgrade For an upgrade the user must have the rights to read and write in the RadiMation folder, which is normally located in the program files directory. In addition to these rights it is also needed to add and check items to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\" tree in the registry as well as the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DARE Development\" tree. Please note that upgrading like described here can only be performed with RadiMation version greater then version 4.3.20. Upgrading from a version earlier or equal to version 4.3.20 can only be performed by an administrator.

2.5.2 New installation A new installation can only be performed with administrator rights. When installed without administrator rights a successful installation is not guaranteed.

2.6 Software configuration In the main menu, under the configuration pull down menu, a number of standard configurations can be made. The selected and / or entered configurations will be used as default. The next paragraphs will explain all required configurations.



2.6.1 Password protection RadiMation allows you to protect a number of configurations through a password protection. To activate, modify or de-activate passwords follow the same procedure by adding or changing an engineer. To prevent unauthorised persons to change system configurations, a password protection can be used. The password is standard turned on for the default used test engineer 'Administrator'. The default password is Radimation. This password protection can be switched off, changed and configured under:

Configuration Engineers

Then select the Administrator engineer and click 'Edit'. In this window, of the Administrator Engineer, the password can be enabled, disabled and changed (to disable or change the password, the current password is required). Furthermore, for the following items, the protection can be enabled or disabled.

Equipment prevents unauthorised changes to test equipment configuration.

Engineer prevents unauthorised changes to test engineers configuration.

TSF Files prevents unauthorised changes to Test Setup Files (TSF) files.

Limit Line prevents unauthorised changes to Limit Line Files (LLF) files.

Correction File

prevents unauthorised changes to correction files.

General

Configurationprevents unauthorised changes to the general configuration.

Click 'Change Password' to get the Change Password window. After typing the 'Old Password' and now leaving the 'Password' and 'Retype Password' fields empty, the password protection will be


switched off. This can be verified by the message marked in red displayed on the bottom of the window.

2.6.2 Test engineers For each test, the name of the test engineer performing the current test can be entered. To add, modify or delete the names of test engineers, select the:

Configuration Engineers

In this window, the test engineer information can be changed.

Engineers Shows the currently configured list of engineers.

Add The Add button can be used to add another engineers name to the list of available engineers. After the Add button is pressed, the following window will be shown, and another engineers name can be specified.



Edit The Edit button can be used to change the name of the selected engineers.

Delete The Delete button can be used to remove the name of the selected engineers from the list of available engineers.

Ok The Ok button will close the dialog.

2.6.3 Default address information configuration When a new EUT file is made the name and address information of the producer, test house and client can be entered separately. In many situations one or more of these will be the same for every EUT (i.e.: when a test house owns the software, the test house data will always be the same). In order to prevent retyping of often-used information RadiMation allows entering the default address information for: The default client The default manufacturer The default test site Data entered under default address information, will automatically be entered in the EUT window and therefore only needs to be entered once. To add, modify or delete the default address information, select the:

Configuration Default Address Information


2.6.4 Default Units RadiMation allows the user to define the default units. These units are used throughout the package although they can be changed at any time during measurements and viewing. To configure these settings go to:

Configuration Units



It is possible to define different units depending on the test selected from the drop down menu. It is possible to use a different unit setting for: Radiated Immunity Conducted Immunity Radiated Emission Conducted Emission Pulsed Immunity Antenna Diagram RadiCal For instance the units for the following parameters can be defined: Power: dBuW, dBm, dBmW, dBW, uW, mW, W Field Strength: dBuV/m, dBmV/m, dBV/m, uV/m, mV/m, V/m Voltage: dBuVrms, dBmVrms, dBVrms, uVrms, mVrms, Vrms Current: dBuA, dBmA, dBA, uA, mA, A Emission: dBuV, dBmv, dBV, V, W, dBuV/m, dBmV/m, V/m

Change Will show the Unit configuration dialog, for the selected usage of the unit, so more specific details of the used unit, and the formatting of the values can be configured.


2.6.5 Default directories configuration The RadiMation software can use different directories to store different data file types. The location of the following file types can be specified: Equipment Under Test Data files (*.EUT files), Correction files (*.COR files) Calibration files (*.CAL files), Configuration files (*.TSF files), Sequence files (*.SEQ files), Limit line files (*.LLF files). Printout files (*.DOC files). Under RadiMation file types and locations the different file types are described. For each data type the default path name can be entered through the configuration, directories pull down menu. The path name can be either a local directory or a directory on a network drive. If a network drive is selected, it makes it possible to store for example EUT data central on a computer network. To modify the path name select:

Configuration Configuration

And then select the Directories tab.



A directory location can be changed by selecting the directory from the list and then pressing the Change button.

2.6.6 Device driver configuration Device drivers are used to let your software know which equipment has to be used and controlled during EMC tests.

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19.1 Appendix A: RadiMation Support Procedure

19.1.1 Definitions Malfunctions can be divided in the seven following categories:

1. Incorrect Measurement: RadiMation is performing a measurement (it is not crashing), but the measured or shown data is incorrect.

2. Crash with data-loss: RadiMation is aborted during operation without any specific reason. After a restart it is clear data is lost.

3. Crash without data-loss: RadiMation is aborted during operation without any specific reason. After a restart, no data is lost.

4. Unexpected functionality: All other cases of malfunction of RadiMation, where the software is doing something differently then expected.

5. Cosmetic: All problem cases where RadiMation in itself is functioning in a correct way although screens, tables and or graphs are not represented in a proper way. This category is used in for example the following cases:

Labels or information do not appear totally or in part. Where labels or information are overwritten totally or in part by other labels or other

information. The screen flashes while writing graphs or other information. An error or unclear description in the manual.

6. Wish: In this case there in not a real problem however the customer requires RadiMation to function in a different way or requires additional functionality. This can even mean the situation is unworkable for the customer. This case encompasses situations where certain functionality or part of tests is not supported.

7. Questions: The type of problem is not a real problem but a situation where the customer does not understand the functioning of the software in part or total. Informing the customer about the proper use of the software can solve this kind of problems. Problems under category 1 to 5 may sometimes be solved by means of a work-around. At that time the problem is found to be solved and changes to the Questions category.

Among other things the prioritisation of the different problems is based on the category of the problem.

19.1.2 Bug Reporting Procedure Goal of the Bug Reporting Procedure is to support customers as quick and effective as possible. By means of clear written down procedures, communication problems are prevented and the reseller and D.A.R.E!! Instruments are informed at the most effective way. This enables an efficient and proper way to solve the problem. At the same time the number of contact instances between you as
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