All, I saw this and thought of all those FPGAs out there on high speed busses. Quote:- "If you depend on ESD-protection diodes to clamp transients on a high-speed bus, you risk burning them out. Because a burned-out diode fails in the open state, obliterating its clamping effect, the next ESD blast that roars through your system will likely cause permanent damage."
I wonder if the FPGA vendors have any figures to plug into the equation given in the above article? That way, those engineers who ignore SI issues could predict when their designs will fail and prepare to get another job! Paul? Austin?
Cheers, Syms.