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Re: [avr-chat] JTAG ICE mkI / II
From: |
Vincent Trouilliez |
Subject: |
Re: [avr-chat] JTAG ICE mkI / II |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:31:16 +0100 |
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:13 -0500, Graham Davies wrote:
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>
> > ... I am bit afraid/scared that an accidental
> > contact with my big fat fingers might damage
> > the [ICE-Cube] with a mega huge ESD shock ! ;-)
>
> Just to clear this up (I'm starting to worry about using too much bandwidth
> here), this has never happened. Your own circuit, after all, has the same
> exposure, so you should take ESD precautions to safeguard that. The Atmel
> MCUs have decent ESD protection and the edges of the ICE-Cube, where you
> grasp it, have ground plane on both sides. One other customer was anxious
> about this so I made him a custom ICE-Cube with epoxy encapsulation over the
> top (it's already on the bottom).
>
> Graham.
Oh Graham, I was only joking about this, can't you see ?! :-/
I understand this is a technical/"serious" list, but I thought a slight
touch of humour here and there was okay, my mistake... will try and
watch myself from now on. :o(
--
Vince