ESD Protection Circuits

GND is the exposed die pad of the ATA8510/15, which is internally connected to AGND (pin 30). All Zener diodes shown in the following figure (marked as power clamps) are realized with dynamic clamping circuits and not physical Zener diodes. Therefore, DC currents are not clamped to the shown voltages.

Figure 1. ATA8510/15 ESD Protection Circuit