ESD discharges are one of those nasty things that can wreak havoc on portable and other electronic products. Manufacturers must build in protection against current from these high-voltage pulse ...

A forward diode‐string may be used for I/O ESD protection to meet the design specs of both ESD triggering and low ESD‐induced parasitic capacitance. For output ESD protection, the output buffer ...

This chapter discusses exemplar electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit design techniques. ESD protection follows the same general principle for all integrated circuit (IC) pads, i.e., to ...

Learn about the most common ESD protection techniques for CMOS circuits, their advantages and disadvantages, and how to select and apply them.

Certain measurement applications, such as for pH (acidity) and bio-potentials, require a high-impedance buffer amplifier. Although several semiconductor manufacturers offer amplifier ICs featuring low ...

Amazing Microelectronic of Taiwan has introduced a low-capacitance ESD protection array for data and audio interfaces. “The multifaceted AZ1015-02N maintains low surge clamping voltage for ESD/EOS ...

National Semiconductor Corporation has introduced the DS90LV804, a four-channel LVDS buffer that operates from zero to 800 Mb/s and features 30 psec total typical jitter and 15 kV ESD protection ...

The four-channel buffer operates from 0 to 800 Mb/s, features 30 psec total jitter (typical), and offers 15 kV of ESD protection for maximum isolation of FPGAs, ASICs and other onboard components ...