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Program

ESD Certified Professional-Device/Design Engineer

Course Length

Half-day (approximate) course

Description

This course teaches the basic ESD circuit design concepts and ideas required to design-in for Charge Device Model ESD tests. The course covers a brief history of CDM ESD development, charge and discharge physics, CDM failure mechanisms, and CDM design-in strategies and characterization. The course focuses on what type of circuits fail during a CDM discharge event and teaches the different types of ESD design circuit strategies that can be applied to protect those circuits. This is an introductory class, but the student is assumed to already have a basic understanding of the CDM test method.