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THRESHOLD TM News bits News and views for members of the ESDAssociation Volume 20, No. 4 July/August 2004 Symposium ........................... 1-6 Tutorials ................................. 1-2 Technical sessions ................ 2-3 Workshops ............................... 3 Welcome to Dallas ................... 4 Promotion opportunities ........... 4 Exhibits ..................................... 5 Professional certification .......... 6 Standards activity update ......... 7 Sept. meeting schedule ............ 7 From the President .................. 8 Calendar ................................... 8 From the Threshold Chair ........ 9 And the survey says ............... 10 Institutional listings ............ 11-12 In this issue 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium Join us in Texas! Continued on page 2 Exhibit Space Available 50 exhibitors have already committed to the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. There is still space available–call today to reserve yours. For information on exhibiting, con- tact Association headquarters by phone: 315-339-6937, fax: 315-339-6793 or e- mail: info@esda.org . Download Device Testing Standards The ESD Association continues to offer free downloads of three device testing stan- dards on the ESDA web site: • ANSI/ESD STM5.1-2001: Electrostatic Discharge Sensitivity Testing—Human Body Model (HBM) Component Level • ANSI/ESD STM5.2-1999: Electrostatic Discharge Sensitivity Testing—Machine Model (MM) Component Level • ANSI/ESD STM5.3.1-1999: Charged Device Model (CDM)—Component Level The documents may be downloaded or viewed at www.esda.org/standards.html . If you would like to purchase a printed copy of any of these documents, please call the ESD Association at 315-339-6937. The 26 th Annual EOS/ESD Symposium packages research, technology, education, and peer networking into the premier in- ternational ESD event September 19-23, 2004, at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas (near Dallas/Fort Worth). The Symposium program is organized in three special interest tracks, and attend- ees will be able to customize their Sympo- sium experience along specific areas of interest. This year’s tracks are: ESD Test, FailureAnalysis, and Systems; Factory, Ma- terials, and ESD Control; and Device, De- sign, and Technology. Tutorials Three days of tutorials provide in-depth training and education. Internationally rec- ognized instructors will present a total of 20 basic, intermediate, and advanced courses. The Symposium officially opens Sunday, September 19 with three full-day tutorials on ESD Basics for the Program Manager, ESD On-Chip Protection in Ad- vanced Technologies, and System Level ESD/EMI. An additional 17 tutorials will be offered on Monday, September 20, and Thursday, September 23, covering topics such as Air Ionization: Issues and Answers; Packag- ing Principles for the Program Manager; Device Technology and FAOverview; Elec- trostatic Calculations for the ESD Engineer; and Cleanroom Considerations for the Program Manager. Many of the tutorials earn credit for one of the professional certification programs sponsored by the ESD Association: ESD Certified Professional-Device/Design and ESD Certified Professional-Program Man- ager. Other tutorials will assist attendees in preparing for the NARTE certification exams for ESD Control Engineer and/or ESD Control Technician, scheduled this year for Friday, September 24. For more information about professional certification, see page 6. Also included in this year’s Symposium is the two-day seminar, ESD Program De- velopment and Assessment (ANSI/ESD S20.20) , on Sunday, September 19, and Monday, September 20. Several new or newly expanded tutori- als are included in the program this year; they are highlighted below. The complete list of tutorials and abstracts may be viewed in the Symposium program on the ESDA web site a t www.esda.org/symposia.html . Tutorial Highlights Tutorial A: ESD Basics for the Program Manager 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Sunday, September 19 Stephen Halperin, SH&A/Prostat Corp. This newly developed presentation is a comprehensive introduction to the funda- mentals of ESD causes and control. ESD Basics is a full day seminar consisting of three presentation sections. Part 1 in- cludes an overview of ESD impact on in- dustry, detailed explanations of Charge Generation, Field Measurement, the role of Capacitance and Voltage, Charge Mea- surement and Charge Decay. Part 2 fo- cuses on general explanations and illus- trations of Device Failure Mechanisms, in- cluding Human Body Model, Charge De- vice and Field Induction Modes, and ex- plains the Machine Model. Part 3 is con- cerned with protecting ESD sensitive de- vices & assemblies, defining the Electro- static Protected Area (EPA), understand- ing various ESD control elements and material selection, and includes a brief in- troduction to ANSI/S20.20 ESD Program Development criteria. Several demonstra-