ESD Design and Technology Online Course

Course Description 

This course offers detailed instruction a variety of subjects pertaining to ESD design and technology.  This course offers detailed instruction on a variety of subjects pertaining to ESD design and technology. Participants learn to develop the skills to determine what constitutes a good ESD design, how to recognize devices that can reduce ESD susceptibility, and how to design new ESD structures for a variety of technologies. 

Course Objectives 

• Provides in-depth understanding of ESD failure mechanisms, test structures, equipment, and provide testing methods used to achieve robust ESD resistance in today’s components. 
• Participants will be able to gather ESD data, determine how to plot the data, and make inferences from the data. 
• This course will identify the major issues associated with ESD, explain how they occur, and are modeled and mitigated.
• Participants will be able to identify ESD structures and determine how they are used to help reduce ESD susceptibility on semiconductor devices.
• Participants will be able to knowledgeably design appropriate ESD structures to assure a component's robustness. 
• Participants will be able to identify appropriate tools to purchase when starting or expanding ESD test capabilities.

 Course Duration

16 hours 

 Target Audience  

Managers, engineers, and technicians working in the semiconductor field 

Requisite Knowledge
None