ESD Best PRACTICES

摘要

What does best practice mean? It boils down to a quality system that results in the highest yield and the highest quality product. In the case of ESD control, it not only means high yields, but also no hard or latent defects in parts shipped to customers.rnAn excellent place to start for protecting ESD-sensitive devices is to implement an ANSI/ESD S20.20 static con-trol program. ANSI/ESD S20.20 (hereafter called S20.20) requires two main areas be specified: administrative require-ments and technical requirements. A careful review of S20.20 reveals some overlap in the requirements; however, they sup-port each other well. Administrative requirements define the program and many of its necessary "non-technical" elements (the first four items below); the rest is documentation of the technical requirements that make up the program.