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 ...

New generations of portable products are increasingly sensitive to damage from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) voltage as newer integrated circuit (IC) technologies employ smaller geometries and lower ...

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 ...

Protection against ESD events (commonly referred to as ESD robustness) is an extremely important aspect of integrated circuit (IC) design and verification, including 2.5/3D designs. ESD events cause ...

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.

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 inclusion of any ESD protection circuit will, due to its own capacitance, affect the impedance of the line. As a result, this must be compensated for through impedance matching.