Practical Esd Protection Design

This book addresses the increasing demands from the industrial electronic engineers for reference materials on both theories and hands-on design skills for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection designs, and the needs from college students to learn the same for their future career. Based on the author's 25+ years of design and teaching experience, and research outcomes on the topic, this book is structured to cover all important aspects for on-chip ESD protection designs for integrated circuits (ICs), from theories to design skills to computer-aided design (CAD) methods, covering ESD phenomena, ESD failures, ESD test models, ESD protection devices, ESD protection circuits, ESD co-design methodology for high-performance mixed-signal ICs and broadband radio-frequency (RF) ICs, and more.