Martin Pilaski is responsible for worldwide product application support of Nexperia’s bipolar discretes portfolio, with a focus on ESD and EMC for mobile, portable, consumer, and computing applications.
Jake Timmerman is an EMC Engineer at E3 Compliance, which specializes in EMC & SIPI design, simulation, pre-compliance testing, and diagnostics. He received his B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Grand Valley State University. Jake participates in the industrial collaboration with GVSU at the EMC Center.
Peyman Ensaf is currently a Quality & Reliability Research and Development Engineer focused on ESD/RFI with Intel. While a student he completed summer internships at the Phillips Laboratory U.S. Air Force focusing on numerical electromagnetics, studying electromagnetic field behaviors within complex cavities of satellite sub-systems using numerical tools.
Sergej Bub, the lead author of this paper, is a System Level ESD expert at Nexperia Germany GmbH in Hamburg. He graduated with a M.Sc. in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg specializing in nanoelectronics and microsystems technology. He is working at Nexperia in the development department in the area of ESD protection and filtering, focusing on modeling and simulation of high-speed application systems and discrete ESD protection components, covering automotive, mobile, and computing areas, as well as development and optimization of ESD protection devices for such applications. Sergej can be reached at sergej.bub@nexperia.com.
Matthew Hogan is a Product Management Director for Calibre Design Solutions at Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Guido Quax is part of the ESD team of NXP Semiconductors, focusing on high voltage ESD solutions, EDA tools, and (transient) latchup.
Eleonora Gevinti is a Senior Engineer in developing ESD EDA checks addressed to Smart Power BCD ICs at STMicroelectronics.