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In the part-1 of ESD we learnt through of ESD testing and its importance. ICs are susceptible to ESD event as they consist of components that are very sensitive to excess current and voltage. ESD even can occur at any point in time during IC assembly and packaging, part handling or system assembly. Important point…
Electro Static Discharge (ESD) is sudden flow of static electricity between two electrically charged objects for a very short duration of time. The study of ESD phenomenon and its protection circuits are more relevant with each technology nodes as smaller devices are more vulnerable. Electric Over-Stress (EOS) is also one by-product of ESD which also…
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If you are in VLSI industry, sometime or the other, you must have heard this term “Mont Carlo (MC)”. In this post let us understand the literal meaning of Monte Carlo simulation and its application in circuit design field. Going by the wiki definition of Monte Carlo “Monte Carlo methods are a broad class of computational…
This is my interview experience with Texas Instruments India. I was searching for job in circuit design field and what could be a better opportunity than TI. I applied to TI on their career site (as most of us do), but apparently received NO response. Then I started connecting to people who are working in…
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MOS scaling has introduced many undesired effects, known second order ones being channel length modulation, velocity saturation, mobility degradation etc. These are introducing a new set of challenges for the designers. From the performance perspective, supply voltage scaling has reduced the driving capability of MOS due to decrease in effective overdrive voltage. On the other…