In summary, ESD is critical for the PCB and application reliability and damage must be avoided. Adding discrete ESD protection helps to protect the system without sacrificing the signal integrity. However, new applications and automotive designs increase the data rates and challenge common design practices. Thus, Nexperia offers a broad but tailored ESD portfolio to have the right ESD protection for the application design. Many of Nexperia‘s automotive parts exceed AEC-Q101 requirements and fulfill automotive grade with PPAP capability.