This tutorial is designed to give a broad overview of ESD device technology, the ways circuit designers protect against ESD, and the failure analysis techniques that are likely to be encountered in reports about ESD failures. This class is not intended to turn you into an ESD protection designer or a failure analysis engineer. It is meant to provide program managers with a background on what designers and failure analysis engineers actually do, by imparting a broad, but not in-depth, understanding of the above areas of the ESD world. After completing this tutorial you should be able to understand the basics of device protection design and some of the trade-offs inherent in that process. You should also be familiar with some of the most commonly used failure analysis techniques that can help identify failing circuit components-in other words “what does a semiconductor manufacturer do with the units I return for failure analysis?” The topics covered include the three most common ESD models, characteristics of ideal ESD protection, typical ESD protection schemes, key characteristics of ESD protection, failure analysis flow, and failure analysis tools and their uses.