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Protection against disturbances - Protective components: use

Authors: Michel GRACIET, Joseph PINEL

Publication date: August 10, 1998

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1. Protection against electrostatic discharge

1.1 General

For more information, please refer to the first two articles in this set on disturbances:

D 5 170 Protection against disturbances. Origin of disturbances.

D 5 171 Protection against disturbances. Protective components.

The description of ESD (see [D 5 170] of this treatise) has shown that electronic components and circuits are the main victims of ESD, and that the essential characteristics of an electrostatic discharge are :

  • a very short rise time (1 to 5 ns);

  • an equally short duration to mid-value at fallout (50 to 100 ns);

  • ...

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