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Can you continue aiming for typical CDM protection levels? Introduction The ESD Design Window (ESD-DW) has...

Historical Background  CDM is an important model for ESD qualification. The well-known CDM refers to...

As innovation comes from many sources, it is difficult to predict or accurately forecast future display technology development. Curved and flexible displays were introduced as the most innovative display technology achievement along with OLEDs in the last 10 years.

Human Body Model (HBM) is the original ESD test method for semiconductor devices and...

How is the proper ESD Protection Cell chosen for a particular design application?

The purpose of AMR is to warn “customers” who use the semiconductor product that there are physical limits that must not be violated if reliability is to be preserved.

This article reviews some of the ESD protection design challenges when designing in a FinFET technology and give an outlook on the successors of FinFET.

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

In the past six months, EOS/ESD Association, Inc. released eight new or revised documents on electrical overstress (EOS), grounding, packaging materials, seating (chairs), footwear, hand tools, gloves, and human metal model.

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.