EDN

ESD Damage Nullifies Cost Savings

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 ...
Ars Technica

ESD (Electrostatic Damage) to Hard Drives

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 ...
EDN

Five Tips for Improving ESD Protection to Reduce Customer Failures

Electro static discharge (ESD) poses a real threat to product quality, and is di cult to spot. ESD standards are continuously updated to keep pace with changes in technology and new test equipment ...
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

Damage from a Lightning Bolt or a Spark-It Depends on How Tall

Nanometer-tall transistors need protection to survive even human sparks. Protection against EOS (electrical overstress) and ESD (electrostatic discharge) destruction of the board circuits and ICs is ...
Electronic Design

Identifying EOS And ESD Failures In Semiconductor Devices

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 ...
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 ...
For Construction Pros

Stat-Rez ESD Nano from APF Polymer Surfaces Prevents Electrostatic Damage

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 ...
Machine Design

The Invisible Foe – Understanding and Controlling ESD Damage

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Semiconductor Electrostatic Discharge Damage Protection

A current problem plaguing many users of MOS discrete and integrated circuit devices is the high damage rate incurred during handling and normal assembly processes. The characteristic high impedance ...

Tornado tears through Harris County ESD 11 campus, causing gas leak

A tornado cut straight across ESD 11’s EMS campus Monday, ripping the roof and back wall off a building with two workers ...