B2. automated ESD rule verification & EDA tools

The manual verification of ESD protection of complex IC designs with many supply domains and voltage levels is extremely challenging and prone to flaws. Therefore many IC design companies have created in-house tools and flows for automated ESD checks. However, most of these tools focus on specific ESD checks and do not provide comprehensive ESD check functionality. Starting from an EOS/ESD Symposium workshop 2 years ago, the requirements for a comprehensive automated ESD verification flow have been collected by an industry wide working group and addressed to EDA vendors. Now it’s time to ask: what will be available in the near future? Which verification features should have priority in a flow implementation? How much adjustment to the company specific ESD concepts is necessary? The workshop will provide a platform for these questions and it will help you to get in touch with others working on this hot topic.