ESD: Design and Synthesis

Dr. Steven H. Voldman, IEEE Fellow, Vermont, USA
Prolific Wiley writer, Dr. Steven Voldman has been involved with ESD work since 1991. He has been Chairman of the ESD Association WG 5.5 on TLP testing since 2001 and he was Chairman of the SEMATECH ESD Working Group on ESD Technology from 1995 until 1998.
Dr. Voldman worked 25 years at IBM before working at Qimonda in 2007 and then TSMC Corporation in 2008. Currently he holds 181 patents in the areas of ESD and latchup, and has 125 pending. His fields of expertise are electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, latchup, ESD testing and ESD design. To date he has worked on many design architectures from SRAM, DRAM, ASICs, Microprocessors, NVRAMs, image processing designs and power technology.