Source isolation measurements in a multi-source coupled system

Abstract

An electronic system will commonly have multiple emission (or noise) sources, some of which are correlated while others are un-correlated. Measuring the contribution to a node voltage or branch current by an individual source with high accuracy in such a multi source inter-coupled system is a fundamental problem. The problem is further amplified when the signal processing following the measurements is highly sensitive to the error in the measured parameters. This article describes a filtering method which can isolate the measured parameter (voltage or current) of the contribution of other such sources while preserving the phase and magnitude associated with the source under consideration.