Bourns, Inc. ESD, EFT, surge protection products are for general applications. The portable communications, computing, and video equipment markets are challenging the semiconductor industry to develop increasingly smaller electronic components. Bourns offers TVS diodes for surge and ESD protection applications in compact chip package size formats.

Bourns' chip diodes conform to JEDEC standards, are easy to handle with standard pick and place equipment, and their flat configuration minimizes roll-away.

Each of the series is RoHS compliant and complies with the following industry standards: IEC 61000-4-2 ESD (min.)(Level 4), IEC 61000-4-4 EFT, and IEC 61000-4-5 surge.