Raspberry Pi Completes CE Quality Assurance Testing & Passes
It seems that little bundle of awesome, the Raspberry Pi, has managed to pass a whole lot of testing. After a week at Panasonic’s facility in South Wales, the Raspberry Pi managed to to pass Europe’s Conformit Europenne (CE) requirements, as well as the United States’s FCC regulations and Australia’s CTick mark requirements. Liz Upton on the foundation’s blog said “We just received confirmation that the Raspberry Pi has passed EMC testing without requiring any hardware modifications,” Which means it’s now official, the Raspberry Pi has managed to survive radiated as well as conducted emissions and immunity tests as well as electrostatic discharge (ESD) tests. Upton also stated that “There is still a mountain of paperwork for us to sign, and that then has to be looked over by RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell; but thats a piece of cake compared to what weve been doing all week.” With the testing now out of the way and most of the kinks having been worked out, let’s hope the Raspberry Pi Foundation can push on and produce more of these amazing devices.
The Raspberry Pi had to pass radiated and conducted emissions and immunity tests in a variety of configurations (a single run can take hours), and was subjected to electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing to establish its robustness to being rubbed on a cat. Its a long process, involving a scary padded room full of blue cones, turntables that rise and fall on demand, and a thing that looks a lot like a television aerial crossed with Cthulhu.
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