In order to be able to design equipment, the instrumentation generally needs to outperform the equipment, sometimes by a significant margin. Flashback to my da

In order to be able to design equipment, the instrumentation generally needs to outperform the equipment, sometimes by a significant margin. Flashback to my days as beginning TLP engineer. I was subjecting ESD protection structures to kV pulses with ~nanosec rise-time. The oscilloscope measures the pulse as it enters and reflects. You’d increase the voltage until the device breaks and do a wafer mapping. I remember a conversation where I showed the setup to a colleague from a diff department, telling him we’re developing next-gen protection against static discharges. To which he replies: why don’t we use what the guys from the oscilloscope are using?