ESD COMPONENT GROUND CLIP

摘要

An ESD protection system for an IC device. An ESD protection circuit is comprised of a plurality of resistors and a common ground bus. The first terminal of each resistor is coupled to an associated pin of an IC device while the second terminal of each resistor is coupled to the common ground bus. The common ground bus is coupled with a reference ground. A clip holds the ESD protection circuit to pins of the IC device. As the IC device is transported, the resent invention maintains a continuous controlled DC path to reference ground on every pin of the IC device, thus preventing damaging electrostatic charges from accumulating on the IC device pins, or discharging though the IC device.