Analysis and Design of ESD Protection Circuits for High-Frequencym Applications
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Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices can have an adverse effect on the performance of high frequency and RF circuits. This work presents for the first time, an s-parameter based analysis of the performance of RF circuits with various ESD protection designs. Additionally, a design methodology for distributed ESD protection using coplanar waveguides is developed to achieve a better impedance match over a broad frequency range. By using this technique, an ESD device with a parasitic capacitance of 200 fF will attenuate the signal power by only 0.27 dB at I O GHz.
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