Abstract—Cable discharge events (CDEs) have been found 6 s I$ ~1 V) J3 M O to be the major root cause of inducing hardware damage on + W- U5 \+ `" v* r+ z8 L Ethernet ICs of communication interfaces in real applications. Still, 8 h. W7 \6 o W! S3 x. Z there is no device-level evaluation method to investigate the ro 1 F6 Y. T! H) G bustness of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)+ [. [ y ?" K* s" L8 v1 }
devices against a CDE for a layout optimization in silicon chips.