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Confusion over ESD flooring resistance terminology and requirements abounds, leaving many in the dark and creating potential risks. This article helps to clarify this complicated issue so that you can work to mitigate the problem.

Optical communication can dramatically increase the bandwidth between servers while reducing complexity, power consumption, and cost.

Single electromagnetic pulses like lightning, ESD, powerline transients, NEMP, etc., are generally described in time domain, while filters and shields are practically always characterized in frequency domain. This article describes a quick and handy formula and nomogram providing a fair estimate of the filter or shield response to a conducted or radiated threat.

Robust ESD protection does not ensure that IC designs are protected from unintended EOS effects. This article identifies areas of risk in some ESD design methods.

Confusion is created when there is more than one standard to define requirements. For ESD control, this has been the case with a military standard (MIL‑STD‑1686) and ANSI/ESD S20.20.

ESD protection from epoxy-based floor coatings often falls short of applicable static control standards. A better understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different epoxy materials is essential to minimize risks.

Let’s look at how a static control flooring system is intended to function. The flooring systems’ purpose is to provide an electrical path, typically to ground, for personnel when used in conjunction with static control footwear, for removal (equalization) of electrostatic charge.

This article highlights key concepts to designing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits for radio frequency (RF) and millimeter wave applications. Needed RF concepts are discussed and some popular protection schemes are illustrated.

A featured Year-In-Review (YIR) presentation was given at the recent 2019 EOS/ESD Symposium by Alan...

The standards development and revision process can appear to be a lot like consulting some hallowed oracle with edicts or directives that cannot be questioned.