Some designers prefer to discretely lay out the EMI filters and ESD Protection devices using resistors, capacitors, and diodes. Texas Instruments combats this by offering significant board space savings compared to this, which can also ease the headache of trying to do the PC layout for all of that. In the example of an 8-channel EMI filter shown in this slide, each channel would have five discrete devices. This would result in a total of forty discrete components, making this a layout and assembly nightmare.