Semiconductor Engineering

Design Optimal ESD Protection With Context-Aware SPICE Simulation

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a major reliability concern for modern ICs. Ensuring the robustness of ICs in an ESD event by providing adequate ESD protection is proving to be a major challenge for ...
EDN

Automate ESD protection verification for complex ICs

Designing an integrated circuit (IC) for communication, computing, gaming, and other emerging applications is a multi-million dollar project, requiring rigorous design methodology and substantial ...
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

How to provide the best ESD protection for automotive A/V interfaces

Maintaining signal integrity in automotive high-speed video link designs is key. Drivers and vehicles now rely more heavily on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). While the use of systems such ...
EDN

Adding ESD protection to USB applications

A very cost-effective solution for ESD protection in USB 2.0/3.0 applications is to combine an internal ESD protection structure (integrated in the USB transceiver) with a robust, high-current ...