ESD-Safe™ MLCCs

The ESD-Safe™ series is an enhanced MLC capacitor developed and designed specifically for general Electro Static Discharge (ESD) protection. The small footprint makes them ideal for high density electronic devices. ESD-Safe™ capacitors provide (beside ESD protection) RF filtering function. ESD-Safe™ capacitors are utilized for ESD protection of I/O gates. ESD capacitors could be used on nearly every pin of an electronic module. Their use at that point averages the voltage that the wiring harness can be charged to and the module voltage. Capacitance selection is a trade off. Large capacitance values provide better ESD protection however a larger capacitance could corrupt the data stream.