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 ...

The state-of-the-art in robustness design and analysis for ESD (electrostatic discharge) always lags our ability to characterize and qualify a device or system. The ESD Association, IEC, JEDEC, and ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is critical at advanced nodes to safeguard designs against effects intensified by shrinking transistor dimensions and oxide layer thicknesses. On the other ...

•ESD protectors with low dynamic resistance won’t necessarily protect circuits. •Most damage is caused within the first nanosecond of an ESD event. •The ESD protector should set as close as possible ...