Most of our hard failures during ESD testing has been SCR type latch-up with all makes of CMOS Devices. See Fairchild Semiconductor Application Note 600 (AN-600) for a pretty good discussion of CMOS latch-up.
Darrell Locke Advanced Input Devices ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: CMOS Driver Chips. List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 7:36AM A small request for information from the informed group. Does anyone have any experience, or information, of CMOS 1488 Line drivers suffering from a sensitivity to static or transients. Particularly when the failure mode results in an almost dead short between the + & - 12 volt supply rails.? I am sure I read an article describing how this effect occurs a few years ago and now, probably because I am old and grey, I cannot remember where! All information gratefully received. --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
