scope:

This document establishes the procedure for testing, and characterizing the electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitivity of component pins that will be directly connected to external connectors or ports on a completed system. This method is not intended for ESD testing of device, module, or component pins that do not directly connect to a system port or connector. This document covers testing under un-powered and powered states but does not cover testing of integrated circuits in a functioning state. For the purposes of this document, the HMM test pulse will be modeled after the contact discharge defined by the IEC 61000-4-2 document.

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to establish a test method for stressing pins of electrical components such as integrated circuits, protection elements, or filters that will be directly connected to external ports of a system and may be subjected to a system level type ESD stress waveform. This document is not intended to prove that a component will survive stress of a specified level within a completed system or to estimate the protection level from ESD that is incorporated within a system. Variations in system design, component level packaging and the individual part response to an ESD stress make such predictions impossible with a single test. The objective of this test is to provide a baseline for characterization of ESD protection on device pins prior to incorporation of those devices or components into the completed system.

NOTE: Component testing to this procedure will not predict how the component will react to system level tests according to IEC 61000-4-2.