EDN

ESD target levels: Impacting ESD from components to systems

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ESD Requirements Are Changing

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 ...
Electronic Design

System Analysis Kit Conducts ESD Audits

Equipped with instrumentation for making measurements and conducting ESD audits according to ANSI/ESD S20.20 Static Control Program Standard, the PSK-310 ESD System Analysis Kit includes a variety of ...
EDN

ESD firm adds system-level protection offering

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Comprehensive Approach To System-Level ESD

The performance and reliability of an electronics system largely depend on the system’s immunity from an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event. Because the components, custom chips and package come from ...