EDN

On-chip ESD protection IP gaining traction

Electrostatic discharge (ESD), a latent and critical hazard to electronic products, has mostly been served by a 2-cent component that often triggers downtime and replacement costs. It also adds to the ...
EDN

ESD protection chip supports HDMI 1.3 spec

Santa Clara, Calif. OnChip Devices, Inc. claims it offers the industry's lowest capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection chip to support the HDMI 1.3 specification. The highly integrated ...
Design-Reuse

On-chip ESD protection for High Voltage applications in TSMC BCD technology

A growing set of IC applications require a high voltage interface. Examples include power management, power conversion and automotive chips with interfaces typically between 12 V and 100 V. Also, ...
Nanowerk

A graphene NEMS switch to protect against electrostatic discharging

(Nanowerk Spotlight) One of the most pervasive reliability problems facing the computer chip industry is ESD (electrostatic discharging) failure caused by the rapid, spontaneous transfer of ...
Design-Reuse

Testable SoCs : Every new design is an ESD test chip

The effect of low ESD immunity on a new product introduction can be both obvious and subtle. Manufacturing and test facilities adhere to ANSI standards for ESD protection and handling of chips based ...
Electronic Design

Chip Combines Audio Filtering And ESD Protection

Forecasting space savings up to 77% when compared discrete designs, the EMIF06-AUD01F2 integrates complete EMI filtering and ESD protection for stereo headset output and external/internal microphones ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing ESD Protection In Today’s SoCs

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 ...
Business Wire

Sofics and Hardent Join Mixel’s MIPI® Ecosystem to Provide Designers a Complete MIPI Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mixel (www.mixel.com), a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs, today announced new partnerships with Sofics bvba (www.sofics.com), a leading provider of analog I/Os, ...
Electronic Design

Chips Offer ESD Protection For High-Speed Data Lines

Specializing in protecting sensitive electronic devices, data lines and PCs from electrostatic discharges (ESDs), the 0603ESDA SurgX surface-mount chips are bi-directional components, have very fast ...
Digi Times

Demand for ESD protection chips to surge as PCIe 4.0 goes mainstream

PCIe4.0 is expected to emerge as a mainstream transmission interface standard for diverse notebooks and desktops in 2022, providing significant growth opportunities for ESD (electrostatic discharge) ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Shock Value

Chip-Package-System (CPS) ESD simulation enables system-wide ESD robustness validation, a common challenge in automotive and aerospace applications. To enable CPS ESD analysis requires an accurate ...
New Electronics

Nexperia introduces optimised flip-chip package technology for automotive ESD protection

Nexperia has unveiled a new portfolio of high signal integrity, bidirectional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diodes in flip-chip land-grid-array (FC-LGA) packaging. Nexperia’s new 2- and ...