A reminder to anyone who carries out ESD tests on IC's Don't forget to throw away the tested sample. It is easy for IC's to survive ESD tests and appear to be normal but to have serious internal damage that will severely compromise the reliability of the unit
Regards Nick Rouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ravinder Ajmani" <[email protected]> To: "EMC-PSTC" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Component ESD Immunity Testing > > > > I have been asked on several occasions to test some particular IC on the > card, whenever there have been instances of IC failures during product > manufacturing/testing. Most ICs are built to withstand an ESD event of 2 > kV, and I have found this to be true in my tests. If IC happens to be OK > then I try to improve the card design to reduce/eliminate the product > failures. > > Regards, Ravinder > PCB Development and Design Department > IBM Corporation > Email: [email protected] > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
