Title :
A design model of gate-coupling NMOS ESD protection circuit
Author :
Yuan, Wang ; Song, Jia ; Zhongjian, Chen ; Ganggang, Zhang ; Lijiu, Ji
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A design model is proposed to exactly simulate operating principles of gate-coupling NMOS (GCNMOS) ESD protection circuit under ESD stress. Using this model, adequate coupling capacitor Cn and coupling resistor Rn can be calculated to improve the efficiency of GCNMOS ESD protection circuit.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; capacitors; circuit simulation; electrostatic discharge; resistors; semiconductor device reliability; ESD stress; coupling capacitor; coupling resistor; gate-coupling NMOS ESD protection circuit; CMOS process; Capacitors; Coupling circuits; Electrostatic discharge; MOS devices; Protection; Resistors; Robustness; Stress; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State and Integrated Circuits Technology, 2004. Proceedings. 7th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8511-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSICT.2004.1436642