1 Introduction This blog will discuss the differences and advantages of two popular types of Human Body Model (HBM) testers for evaluating electronic components for ESD robustness, two pin and matrix based testers. In a future blog I will discuss … Read More

1 Introduction For the ESD test engineer one of the most frustrating challenges is charged device model (CDM) testing very small integrated circuits. During field induced CDM testing, following the joint JEDEC/ESDA CDM standard JS-002 [1] the device under test … Read More

1 Introduction In a previous blog “Field Induced CDM Explained” I discussed what happens during the CDM test. This included the sequence of events as voltage is applied to the field plate, how the potential on the device under test … Read More