I'd guess that all this began when MOSFETs were introduced, with their fragile gates. Dave Jones had a recent video about an ESD meter (youtube.com) that was interesting.
We were working with a lot of TTL and CMOS devices back then. The TTL devices are pretty damned rugged and could handle anything but reverse voltage or negative voltages. The CMOS stuff was sensitive to static fields and discharge, but where I was had a very high humidity and it seemed to make the static issues a complete non-issue even though those CMOS devices were full of MOSFETs.
>I'd guess that all this began when MOSFETs were introduced, with their fragile gates. Dave Jones had a recent video about an ESD meter (youtube.com) that was interesting.
We were working with a lot of TTL and CMOS devices back then. The TTL devices are pretty damned rugged and could handle anything but reverse voltage or negative voltages. The CMOS stuff was sensitive to static fields and discharge, but where I was had a very high humidity and it seemed to make the static issues a complete non-issue even though those CMOS devices were full of MOSFETs.
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