Standards for specifying a chip’s ability to withstand electrostatic discharge (ESD) are changing – in some cases, getting tougher, and in others, easing up. ESD protection has been on a path from a ...

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

LONDON — Sofics BVBA (Gistel, Europe), a company formed by a management buy-out of Sarnoff Europe, is introducing a line of design solutions for high-voltage ICs that provide on-chip protection ...