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Robert Gauthier Jr.

Robert Gauthier Jr. has led the worldwide ESD/latchup team within GlobalFoundries including colleagues in the U.S., Dresden, and Singapore. He has over 285 issued patents with many others filed. He was one of the founders of the International ESD Workshop (IEW) and is a former General Chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium.

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What Are External Latch-up and Internal Latch-up?

Overall, latch-up prevention is one of the most important tasks for both foundries and IC designers. Based on the chip design scheme, designers should select proper solutions to eliminate the ILU and ELU risks in chip design, referencing the foundry guidelines and latch-up silicon data to ensure minimal latch-up risks for the product. 

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