Many electronic components are sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD). A static charge is an unbalanced electrical charge at rest. An electrostatic discharge is created when insulator surfaces rub ...

EMC consultant Doug Smith, always one to come up with interesting measurements, conducted an experiment to show how fields caused by ESD can damage circuits from across a room. To make his point, ...

To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections have to be made. Although this may seem straightforward, these I/O pads form a ...