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What are the limitations of EDA tools?In Part 1 of the article, we reviewed what EDA tools are good for. Here we will discuss EDA tool limitations. A complete ESD solution is…

Going back several decades, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) design and layout checks that were done manually were laborious and time-consuming, let alone not confidently reliable. These issues have been exacerbated by…

Bridging the Gap using tAMRNever-ending EOS Customer Returns During the last four decades, damage to devices from electrical overstress (EOS) has confounded both IC suppliers and customers. The Industry Council on ESD Target…

The invention of the bipolar transistor and later the MOS transistor evolution into wide applications for ESD protection in the semiconductor technologies was previously published in the January 2023 issue…

This article introduces typical latch-up verification techniques to detect and prevent latch-up. These techniques rely on electronic design automation (EDA) tools to deliver the coverage necessary to identify and eliminate…

When handling ESD-sensitive components, we must protect them from ESD damage. ANSI/ESD S20.20 tells us its purpose is “to provide administrative and technical requirements for establishing, implementing and maintaining an…