… This IC ESD failure problem and the ESD protection solution are the topics of this book. As
the semiconductor IC technologies advances … IC technologies advance and ESD protection …

… of the ESD protection device must be higher than the power-supply voltage of the IC to prevent
the ESD protection … high ESD protection levels in the advanced RF circuits,” in Proc. EOS/…

… even use especially custom designed ESD Protection devices in their circuits. Common
ESD protection devices employs snap-back principle for protecting ICs from damage. snap-back …

… ESD event [5,6]. Even in the same technology, one type of protection device may not be
usable for all pins of an IC … During the last 15 years major advances in protection designs have …

… , however, one would kill a touch phone instantly if no ESD protection provided for IC
chips. Generally, as IC technologies continue to advance into the nanometer domain, while …

… In today’s most advanced power electronics systems, damaging ESD and transient events
occur during product qualification testing where you really want to find issues, and in the end …

… ESD target levels, an independent body of ESD experts with the mission to review the ESD
robustness requirements of modern IC … with advanced ESD controls in place, the ESD target …

… of ESD protection structures. The main ESD protection design tradeoff in advanced RF
and mixed-signal (MS) applications is to achieve high ESD protection level (beyond 4 kV…

… in advanced onchip ESD protection circuitry design for RF/AMS ICs including ESD-circuit
interactions, mixed-mode ESD … for ESD protection design optimization and prediction, ESD-…

… and discharged to produce a narrow (75-200-nanosecond) rectangular pulse, which is
then applied to the ESD protection structure connected to the pins of an IC.The TLP tester is …