<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title><![CDATA[TB-Tech-Tips - TechBites]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[TechBites - The Science and Technology Collaborative Community]]></description>
        <link>http://www.techbites.com/</link>
		        	        	        <item>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">1772-462</guid>
	            <title><![CDATA[ESD Protection Made Simple: ESD protection: checking is only one aspect]]></title>
	            <link>/201001161772/myblog/ingenuity/z000c-esd-protection-made-simple.html</link>
	            <description><![CDATA[
	            	            Hi Gene

I agree that some sort of automatic checking tool can drastically reduce the risk of failures related to ESD and the Mentor PERC tool features seems right on for this job. I see a lot of potential in this new tool development. 

However, I fear that it might be too costly for (small) fabless outfits to get the tool and additionally spend time to write the rules themselves. Is there any news on Mentor working together with major foundries to port (at least) the foundry ESD rules into PERC's rule format?

Finally, while checking if the right ESD devices are connected is one thing. Ensuring that the selected ESD device is the right one is another. At Sofics (www.sofics.com) we are focused on product proven ESD protection IP and related services and provide ESD protection clamps that are complementary to the foundry approaches: Clamps with extremely low leakage, low capacitance, small area or scaled for high ESD protection or any other custom requirement. 	            ]]></description>
                <category><![CDATA[TB-Tech-Tips]]></category>
                <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:46:27 -0600</pubDate>
            </item>
	        		    </channel>
</rss>

