I once worked for a company that made guitar amplifiers, where I and another engineer designed DSP-based boards for reverb, delay, flange, and chorus effects. We were given the challenge of designing ...
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 ...
EMC consultant Doug Smith, always one to come up with interesting measurements, conducted an experiment to show how fields caused by ESD can damage circuits from across a room. To make his point, ...
ICs subjected to electrostatic discharge (ESD) stress have distinct failure signatures. High currents can melt different regions of the semiconductor structure (ESD-HBM, or human body model), while ...
I was installing a hard drive today and it works fine, but as it's the first time I've done it I did a little reading and found out that electrostatic charge can damage your drive not only if you ...
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is indeed the "invisible foe" of electronic product quality and reliability. ESD includes spectacular electric sparks, but also less dramatic forms which may be neither ...
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 ...
In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, damage and yield losses attributed to the effects of static charges are well documented along with the determination of many of the specific causes. 1 If ...
ICP Building Solutions Group (BSG) has launched its newest product from APF Polymer Surfaces, Stat-Rez ESD Nano, which offers innovative solutions to control static and improve safety. Stat-Rez Static ...