Electrical Threats

Modern electronic products live in a dangerous world. Beyond the obvious dangers of spilled coffee on keyboards and the dropped, scraped and banged physical world that portable devices from cell phones to laptop computers endure, there are a host of electrical threats. Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), lightning and power line surges can damage the increasingly sensitive components in electronic products. To insure survivability the electronics industry has developed a number of test standards to determine the robustness to a variety of electrical stresses. To help system designers meet these standards and produce products ready for a dangerous world, ON Semiconductor has developed a wide range of silicon based protection devices. Selecting the correct devices for the application is imperative. Silicon based protection products offer the fastest response and most reliable protection products but they are not the only options. We have designed this web site not only to give you fast access to ON's wide range of protection products, but to help you understand the threats; how the threats are tested for and to help in choosing the correct protection devices and strategy for your application.

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