I was installing a hard drive today and it works fine, but as it's the first time I've done it I did a little reading and found out that electrostatic charge can damage your drive not only if you ...

An electronic device is susceptible to Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage during its entire life cycle, including the phase from the completion of the silicon wafer processing to when the device ...

Many electronic components are sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD). A static charge is an unbalanced electrical charge at rest. An electrostatic discharge is created when insulator surfaces rub ...

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 ...

The rapid increase in the bandwidth to the connectors created another protection challenge; the chipset’s interface speeds increased and silicon feature sizes decreased. This combination of faster ...

In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, damage and yield losses attributed to the effects of static charges are well documented along with the determination of many of the specific causes. 1 If ...

Protection against electrostatic discharge (ESD) now is a mainstream business, complete with products and services. As with most activities associated with high technology, the offerings continually ...