EDN

HDMI ESD protection compliance and design strategies

Signal integrity and performance is critical for maintaining the quality of HDMI's GHz signals, as well as achieving compliance to the HDMI standard. Manufacturing requirements for ESD protection, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Ensuring ESD Protection Verification With Industry-Standard Checks

Electronic design automation (EDA) verification of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a complex task. Different integrated circuit (IC) design companies use different ESD protection ...
EDN

ESD Protection for Analog Circuits

Static electricity can be one of those things that can leave both analog and digital circuits out of commission. Static electricity often occurs when dissimilar materials rub against each other ...
Semiconductor Engineering

2.5/3D IC Reliability Verification Has Come A Long Way

2.5D/3D integrated circuits (ICs) have evolved into an innovative solution for many IC design and integration challenges. As shown in figure 1, 2.5D ICs have multiple dies placed side-by-side on a ...
Electronic Design

New Kinetis MCUs Fortify EMC/ESD Protection

Freescale Semiconductor added three new families to its Kinetis E microcontroller (MCU) series, which are built around the ARM Cortex-M0+ architecture. The KE02 (running up to 40 MHz), KE04 (up to 48 ...
New Electronics

Choose ESD protection devices sooner rather than later to avoid schedule slippage

Ask any financial planner for retirement savings advice and the first answer you'll get will always be the same: "It's never too early to start planning for retirement." Much the same advice is true ...