EDN

HDMI ESD protection compliance and design strategies

Signal integrity and performance is critical for maintaining the quality of HDMI's GHz signals, as well as achieving compliance to the HDMI standard. Manufacturing requirements for ESD protection, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Ensuring ESD Protection Verification With Industry-Standard Checks

Electronic design automation (EDA) verification of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a complex task. Different integrated circuit (IC) design companies use different ESD protection ...
EDN

ESD protection design for discrete semiconductors

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is caused by the discharge of an excess or deficiency of electrons on one surface with respect to another surface or to ground. When a static charge is present on an ...
Machine Design

Four Ways to Enhance ESD Protection After Your Design Flunks Its ESD Test

•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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ESD Co-Design For High-Speed SerDeS In FinFET Technologies

An electronic device is susceptible to Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage during its entire life cycle, including the phase from the completion of the silicon wafer processing to when the device ...
Electronic Design

Low-Cap Silicon ESD Devices

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 ...
New Electronics

Choose ESD protection devices sooner rather than later to avoid schedule slippage

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