Verification of ESD structures and other protection circuits is often a time consuming and tedious task. How do you do it? Complex DRC rules? An assortment of specialized rule decks? Home-brew tools? Recently a colleague and I published a paper which used one of the Mentor tools (Calibre® PERC) to help with this ESD checking. If you’re interested, the paper is available on-line here: New Flow for Automating Verification of ESD Design Rules http://www.soccentral.com/results.asp?EntryID=29425 Also of interest is the ESDA Symposium in the Los Angeles area (Anaheim to be precise) over the coming week. I’d encourage you to pop in if you can. Last year’s event was our first at the ESDA Symposium, and it was very good. Lots of great papers, interesting views and opinions on ESD, as well as a healthy turnout, all of which led to a successful event. We’re hoping this year will be just as good, if not better. If you do happen to attend, pop in to our booth and say “Hi”. You can also let us know how you liked the Symposium and your thoughts.