Design-Reuse

An ESD efficient, Generic Low Power Wake up methodology in an SOC

As the semiconductor industry is moving towards lower technology nodes, more and more complexity is being introduced in the design to beat the competition and provide most innovative solution to cater ...
Business Wire

Research and Markets: Electrostatic Discharge (ESD): A Comprehensive Design and Synthesis Guide for Semiconductor, Circuit & ESD Engineers

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/22f186/esd_design_and_sy) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons ...
Electronic Design

Escalating ESD Protection Demands Inspire Innovative Architecture Strategies

Fig 1. Comparison of a traditional ESD protection design methodology and the PicoGuard XS architecture shows how the latter can provide matched inductance. Fig 2. In a traditional ESD device, the ...
Design-Reuse

Sarnoff Europe joins the TSMC Design Center Alliance with its ESD Design portfolio

GISTEL, Belgium-- September 25, 2008 -- Sarnoff Europe today announced that it has joined the TSMC Design Center Alliance (DCA). The DCA program helps align IC companies and TSMC-qualified providers.
Semiconductor Engineering

Can We Efficiently Automate 2.5/3D IC ESD Protection Verification?

Protection against ESD events (commonly referred to as ESD robustness) is an extremely important aspect of integrated circuit (IC) design and verification, including 2.5/3D designs. ESD events cause ...
EDN

Collaborative advantage: OpenPDK releases ESD design spec; IRPS 2013

This past week, the OpenPDK Coalition at Si2 has released an important specification on electro-static discharge (ESD) design best practices to improve reliability for integrated circuits, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ESD Signoff No Longer A “Nice to Have” In FinFET Design Era

As the semiconductor industry transitions to finFETs, reliability challenges are increasing. ESD designers are challenged with new issues that would require significant rethinking and redesign of ...
EDN

Littelfuse iDesign

In today’s EEWeb Whiteboard, we discuss the importance of ESD protection and the benefits provided by the Littelfuse iDesign ESD Selection Tool. Most electronic devices include ESD protection ...
Electronic Design

Is System-Level ESD Testing Valid for ICs?

Electronic system designs often include transient protection to ensure system robustness for electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. Adding external ESD protection without compromising system I/O speed, ...