If you really want to know how tough such protection can be, check out the DO-160 Aerospace requirements for lightning induced transients. Short summery: one of the worst transients spikes is ...

ESD protection circuits across different power domains. Cross-power-domain paths may have a CDM-style ESD susceptibility. These paths between functional blocks that are operated under different power ...

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Verifying and fixing ESD protection circuit violations is an essential step in tapeout sign-off flows for today’s IC chip designs. As one of the most commonly used ESD verification flows, the point to ...

It provides a clear insight into the integration of ESD protection networks from a generalist perspective, followed by examples in specific technologies, circuits, and chips.

Beware of misleading marketing specifications where vendors are increasing their “integrated ESD” rating and confusing system designers but advising that their integrated circuits do not require ...

TE Circuit Protection announces a family of eight new single-channel and multi-channel silicon ESD (SESD) protection devices offering the lowest and smallest size packages available. TE Circuit ...

Finally, for ESD protection, circuit protection products such as silicon ESD (SESD) devices can be placed on the USB data lines. These ultra-compact (0402- and 0201- sized) ...

The ESD protection device alone may not be enough to protect modern chip sets from ESD transients. Fortunately, board designers can use these four strategies to optimize ESD protection: 1.

Indeed, engineers pack billions of circuits into dense monolithic systems-on-chip (SoCs), leaving only limited area for protective ESD elements that must be meticulously placed and verified. Moreover, ...