Semtech Transient voltage suppression meets the industry's toughest requirements using state of the art devices for protecting sensitive circuitry from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electrical Fast Transients (EFT), Lightning, Cable Discharge Events (CDE) and other noise disturbances.

Protect you new designs from the 3 basic mechanisms for permanently damaging semiconductor devices (Junction Burnout, Oxide Punchthrough, Mettalization Burnout). All these failures are thermal in nature and caused by the raise in temperature of a region when dissipating the ESD pulse. Constant advances in semiconductor process technologies make the design of protection challenging.

The protection circuit must divert transient current and clamp transient voltage below the failure threshold of the protected IC.  Semtech offer the lowest clamping voltage a critical parameter to consider when choosing a protection device. Also Semtech devices insure signal integrity on high speed interfaces and reduce latch up issues with their proprietary low capacitance technology.