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application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms The student, Matthew Drallmeier, accepted the attached license on 2025-02-24 at 13:55. The student, Matthew Drallmeier, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2025-02-24 at 13:55. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2025-02-27 at 16:17. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21649 on 2025-10-19 at 18:09:04 Distributed electrostatic discharge protection for high-speed wireline receivers Drallmeier, Matthew 2025-02-27 Rosenbaum, Elyse Electrostatic discharge (ESD) charged device model (CDM) human body model (HBM) eng Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is required at the high-speed input/output (IO) interfaces of integrated circuits (ICs) to ensure reliability, but it adds loading capacitance that hinders performance. This work investigates the performance and reliability implications of distributing the ESD protection into multiple segments separated by a discrete inductor, and it is found that distributed ESD protection is an advantageous from both performance and ESD reliability perspectives. Silicon test structures that implement distributed ESD protection are fabricated and measured to validate the analytic and simulation results. 2025-05 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/129170 Copyright 2025 Matthew Drallmeier Electrical & Computer Eng Electrical & Computer Engr University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign M.S. Thesis