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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2009
Gianluca Boselli, Plano, TX (US);
Jonathan S. Brodsky, Richardson, TX (US);
John E. Kunz, Jr., Allen, TX (US);
Gianluca Boselli, Plano, TX (US);
Jonathan S. Brodsky, Richardson, TX (US);
John E. Kunz, Jr., Allen, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection validator, a method of validating ESD protection for an IC and an ESD validation system. In one embodiment, the ESD protection validator includes: (1) a circuit analyzer configured to compare component information of the IC with predefined ESD protection elements to identify ESD cells of the IC and (2) an ESD cell verifier configured to compare physical attributes associated with the identified ESD cells to ESD protection requirements and determine compliance therewith.