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ESD - BiTS Workshop

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Impact of <strong>ESD</strong><br />

• Electrostatic Discharge (<strong>ESD</strong>) destroys<br />

electronic hardware<br />

– Immediate failures - distractive damage<br />

• Direct-current resulting in junction burnout,<br />

shorts, dielectric breakdown, and metallization<br />

melt<br />

– Latent failures (field failures), days, weeks,<br />

months later<br />

• <strong>ESD</strong> creates problems which cost industry<br />

billions of dollars per year<br />

BITS 2005<br />

Methods of preventing <strong>ESD</strong> in<br />

module testing.<br />

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