Re: [avr-chat] JTAG ICE mkI / II

[Vincent Trouilliez]

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