• DocumentCode
    2784242
  • Title

    Design of High-Voltage-Tolerant Power-Rail ESD Clamp Circuit in Low-Voltage CMOS Processes

  • Author

    Ker, Ming-Dou ; Wang, Chang-Tzu ; Tang, Tien-Hao ; Su, Kuan-Cheng

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electron., National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    15-19 April 2007
  • Firstpage
    594
  • Lastpage
    595
  • Abstract
    A new high-voltage-tolerant power-rail electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit with a special ESD detection circuit realized with only 1timesVDD devices for 3timesVDD-tolerant mixed-voltage I/O interfaces is proposed. The proposed power-rail ESD clamp circuit with excellent ESD protection effectiveness has been verified in a 0.13-mum CMOS process with only 1.2-V devices.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; detector circuits; electrostatic discharge; 0.13 micron; 1.2 V; CMOS processes; ESD detection circuit; ESD protection; mixed-voltage I/O interfaces; power-rail ESD clamp circuit; power-rail electrostatic discharge clamp circuit; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Circuits; Clamps; Electrostatic discharge; Low voltage; Microelectronics; Power system reliability; Protection; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability physics symposium, 2007. proceedings. 45th annual. ieee international
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0919-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0919-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RELPHY.2007.369967
  • Filename
    4227708