EDN

ESD target levels: Impacting ESD from components to systems

The Industry Council on ESD Target Levels, since its inception in 2006, has strongly influenced the IC industry’s ESD qualification processes. The industry’s original ESD qualification requirements ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Are You Paying Proper Attention To Your ESD Design Windows?

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) issues in integrated circuit (IC) chip designs have become more critical at advanced semiconductor process nodes, due to shrinking transistor dimensions and oxide layer ...
EDN

Understanding and comparing the differences in ESD testing

ESD (electrostatic discharge)—the sudden andmomentary electric current that flows betweentwo objects at different electrical potentials—causes equipment failure and network downtime,thus causing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ESD P2P And CD Verification Doesn’t Have To Be Hard

As a designer or verification engineer, you’re fighting the effects of electrostatic discharge (ESD) in your integrated circuit (IC) designs all the time. ESD is one of those frustrating issues that ...
Electronic Design

Charged Device Model (CDM) ESD Testing: Getting a Clearer Picture

Of all of the component-level ESD tests available, the charged-device model (CDM) test is the closest to simulating real world events. CDM testing simulates ESD charging followed by a rapid discharge, ...
Electronic Design

ESD: A Smartphone’s Worst Enemy

Most consumers are generally unaware that they themselves are the single biggest risk to the electronic devices they have come to depend on every day. Simply touching any device that contains ...