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Why Do People Spray Downy Before Computer Tabulation?
By Michael J. McCarthy Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Published July 24, 1996 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB838158289179103000 This may come as a bit of a shock, but static electricity is a hair-raising problem. In…
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Automated Latch-Up Verification in 2.5D/3D ICs
Ok, let’s start with the basics. What is latch-up, and why do designers care about it?In today’s tightly packed layouts, most integrated circuits (ICs) end up with parasitic bipolar transistors…
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Next to FinFET, How Will ESD Suffer?
Roughly a decade ago, starting at 22nm technology nodes, the transistor architecture changed from planar to FinFET [1-3]. Bulk FinFET (FF) which is a multi-gate transistor built on Si substrate…
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The Relationship Between EMI/EMC and ESD
The 2020 EOS/ESD Symposium in September 2020 featured a new EMC Special Session, held on the Wednesday of the Symposium, organized in cooperation between the EMC Society and EOS/ESD Association,…
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Controlling Static Electricity: A 50-Year History
It is well understood that static electricity has been with us forever. Our awareness of problems associated with static electricity probably originated with the invention of gun powder when, no…
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What Exactly is ESD for 3D ICs?
For decades, Moore’s law has been driven by the downscaling of transistor dimensions on silicon. When reaching the ultra-advanced integrated circuit (IC) fabrication technologies in the single-digit nm regime (currently…
