That's my experience as well Doug. Thanks for taking the time to run the test. Best Regards Charles Grasso Compliance Engineer Echostar Communications Corp. Tel: 303-706-5467 Fax: 303-799-6222 Cell: 303-204-2974 Pager/Short Message: 3032042974@xxxxxxxxx Email: charles.grasso@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Doug Smith [mailto:doug@xxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:29 PM To: davidjp@xxxxxxx Cc: Grasso, Charles; dcuthbert@xxxxxxxxxx; SI-List; emc-pstc Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: Testing chips with system level specs Hi David and the group, I thought I would make some measurements. Humidity was not controlled=20 but constant and likely about 40% and room temperature. I did many discharges into a ground plane through an Fischer F-65 (my=20 favorite ESD current probe) over a period of a several minutes around=20 8 kV. Most all of the discharges were relatively slow but once in a=20 while a fast event occurred. The occasional fast discharge happened=20 whether the approach was fast or slow. Not sure if doing discharges in succession (5 seconds in between)=20 affects later discharges. If so that might explain some of the=20 results. It seems that there may be some remnants left over from the=20 previous spark. Doug Pommerenke, David wrote: > Charles, >=20 > On the "really fast discharges" using the Andy Hish simulatior I do not =3D > have the data here, as I am in Germany right now.=3D20 >=20 > But if you look at >=20 > http://web.umr.edu/%7Etiumr/davidjp/Jour_Estat__high_qual_1995.pdf >=20 > (the link has %7 in it, that is OK) >=20 > at figure 10 and figure 11. You see measurements of discharges at 10kV =3D > having risetimes of about 100ps or so. That is very close to the limit =3D > of the measuremetn system (SCD5000). >=20 > The physics of the very fast discharges in air discharge is explained in >=20 >=20 > http://web.umr.edu/%7Etiumr/davidjp/ESDForum_1993.pdf >=20 > (kind of old paper, but the physics have not changed). >=20 > Regards, >=20 > David Pommerenke >=20 >=20 --=20 ------------------------------------------------------- ___ _ Doug Smith \ / ) P.O. Box 1457 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Los Gatos, CA 95031-1457 _ / \ / \ _ TEL/FAX: 408-356-4186/358-3799 / /\ \ ] / /\ \ Mobile: 408-858-4528 | q-----( ) | o | Email: doug@xxxxxxxxxx \ _ / ] \ _ / Website: http://www.dsmith.org ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu