The low-voltage integrated circuit inside the cartridge is extremely ESD sensitive, and can be destroyed by an event of only a few dozen volts which cannot even be felt by the person, delivering a fatal shock to the game unit.

Discharges are also applied to a vertical and horizontal ground plane to simulate an ESD event on a nearby surface.

In all these cases, the friction between two materials results in tribocharging, thus creating a difference of electrical potential that can lead to an ESD event.

For example, charged regions on the surfaces of styrofoam cups or bags can induce potential on nearby ESD sensitive components via electrostatic induction and an ESD event may occur if the component is touched with a metallic tool.

ESD was maintained as part of the GNOME project, but as of April 2009, all ESD modules in GNOME have been ported to libcanberra for event sounds or GStreamer / PulseAudio for everything else.

Source and victim are usually electronic hardware devices, though the source may be a natural phenomenon such as a lightning strike, electrostatic discharge ( ESD ) or, in one famous case, the Big Bang at the origin of the Universe.

ESD includes spectacular electric sparks, but also less dramatic forms which may be neither seen nor heard, yet still be large enough to cause damage to sensitive electronic devices.

ESD simulators may be used to test electronic devices, for example with a human body model or a charged device model.

These invisible forms of ESD can cause outright device failures, or less obvious forms of degradation that may affect the long term reliability and performance of electronic devices.

ESD prevention within an EPA may include using appropriate ESD-safe packing material, the use of conductive filaments on garments worn by assembly workers, conducting wrist straps and foot-straps to prevent high voltages from accumulating on workers ' bodies, anti-static mats or conductive flooring materials to conduct harmful electric charges away from the work area, and humidity control.

ESD may mean:

The ESD determines the external parameters such as acceleration curve, temperature and pressure and only activates the weapon when these external effects occur in the correct order and must fall within specific parameters.

However, many ESD events occur without a visible or audible spark.

ESD problems first arose with accidental electric spark discharges in hazardous environments such as coal mines and when refuelling aircraft or motor cars.

The most spectacular form of ESD is the spark, which occurs when a heavy electric field creates an ionized conductive channel in air.

In addition, it is important to prevent ESD when an electrostatic discharge sensitive component is connected with other conductive parts of the product itself.

A Charged Device Model ( CDM ) test is used to define the ESD a device can withstand when the device itself has an electrostatic charge and discharges due to metal contact.

For example, the shock sometimes felt when a doorknob is touched is an ESD.

His efforts to develop the IBM PC began when he took control of the IBM Entry Level Systems in 1980 ( and later named President of the newly formed IBM Entry Systems Division ( ESD ) in August 1983 ), with the goal of developing a low-cost personal computer to compete against increasingly popular offerings from the likes of Apple Computer, Commodore International, and other perceived IBM competitors.

** Electrostatic Discharge ( ESD ), as a result of two charged objects coming into close proximity or even contact.

The advanced planning study was well received both at MITRE and ESD and it was decided to pursue a practical design to see if these ideas could be translated into a usable system.

ESD ’ s first RADAR systems were ground-based, but in the 1960s the organization expanded into airborne RADAR systems.

* provide countries with new opportunities to incorporate ESD into education reform efforts.

ESD support must be specifically written and added into applications, as ESD does not emulate normal audio hardware APIs.

Formerly backint developed by IBM Germany in Entwicklung by the Enterprise Service Division ( ESD ) as a " Support Offering " to back up SAP R / 3 directly into TSM.

ADINT-developed by IBM Germany in Entwicklung by the Enterprise Service Division ( ESD ) as a " Support Offering " to back up SAP MaxDB directly into TSM.

Electrostatic discharge ( ESD ) is the sudden flow of electricity between two objects caused by contact, an electrical short, or dielectric breakdown.

For testing the susceptibility of electronic devices to ESD from human contact, an ESD Simulator with a special output circuit, called the human body model ( HBM ) is often used.

# Long ground pins make contact ; basic electrical safety and ESD protection becomes available.

Electrostatic discharge testing is typically performed with a piezo spark generator called an " ESD pistol ".

; Electrostatic discharge ( ESD ) immunity: Electrostatic discharges with various properties ( rise time, peak voltage, fall time, and half time ) are applied to the areas on the device that are likely to be discharged too, such as the faces, near user accessible buttons, etc.

Most of ESD sensitive electronic assemblies and components are also so small that manufacturing and handling is made with automated equipment.

ESD prevention activities are therefore important with those processes where component is touching on equipment surfaces.

JTIDS began with an advanced planning study sponsored by the Air Force Electronic Systems Division ( ESD ) Advanced Plans ( XR ) at L. G.

Dissipative ladders are ladders with controlled electrical resistance: the resistance slows the transfer of charge from one point to another, offering increased protection during ESD events: ≥ 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > and < 10 < sup > 12 </ sup > Ω / square.

O ' Rear often felt overwhelmed by the number of people he had to deal with at the ESD ( Entry Systems Division ) facility in Boca Raton.

For example, the ESD caution symbol, which is the hand with the line drawn through it, was published by JEDEC and is used worldwide.

In statistical signal processing and physics, the spectral density, power spectral density ( PSD ), or energy spectral density ( ESD ), is a positive real function of a frequency variable associated with a stationary stochastic process, or a deterministic function of time, which has dimensions of power per hertz ( Hz ), or energy per hertz.

ESD effects can be reduced by careful design of the mechanical package around the hot-swap component, perhaps by coating it with a thin film of conductive material.

It is often grouped with ESL as ESL / ESD.

LithTech cooperated with RealNetworks in developing a custom version of LithTech 2. 2 called RealArcade LithTech ( or LithTech ESD ).

Testing for ESD, or " spark " sensitivity of explosives is performed with a machine designed to discharge from a capacitor through a prepared sample.

The number of teams each ESD region is alloted for the state tournament varies each year with the number of schools that compete at each division ( based on Washington Interscholastic Activities Association classification ) in each region.

The Sector Teams have compiled ESD tools and resources and worked together to advance ESD through initiatives held " in collaboration with the U. S. Partnership ".