What you mentioned about ESD is true. Much better to design for it than to try and fix the design later. Unfortunately, the later approach is what is normally done. ESD debugging should not be done in an ESD test area as the energy goes everywhere and one has no control. My preferred method of debugging is to inject ESD like noise locally in a system to determine the sensitive part of the circuit. I have designed several ways of doing this. No guesswork just results!
Doug Smith Sent from my iPhone IPhone: 408-858-4528 Office: 702-570-6108 Email: [email protected] Website: http://dsmith.org ________________________________ From: Lyndell Lee Asbenson <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2023 8:24:54 PM To: doug emcesd.com <[email protected]>; Morales, Aldo W <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: Interesting material Thanks Doug, the stories I have of ESD and the problems it caused . What Intel learned is that you have to design for ESD up front, not reactivate, after the design. The people doing Gallian Arsnide never got this memo. I had an IMS tester that had an MTBF of 128hr (crapy) all because the pin electronics were always under repair. Lyndell Get Outlook for Android<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aka.ms_AAb9ysg&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=c9NR2mGfldry-2pM9Bbuww&m=gp9yh_gKNspS1j99QLN1Y_x5vHuVpYACneLagjjCssE&s=ft6BhOhaJImgfaZzNLr4Fj4-0hsENPAafJrq6mA5agw&e=> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]> _________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EMC-PSTC list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=EMC-PSTC&A=1
