A Pad-Oriented Novel Electrostatic Discharge Protection Structure For Mixed-Signal ICs

Analysis and Design of Distributed ESD Protection Circuits for High-Speed Mixed-Signal and RF ICs

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices can have an adverse effect on the performance of high-speed mixedsignal and RF circuits. This paper presents quantitative methodologies to analyze the performance degradation of these circuits due to ESD protection. A detailed s-parameter-based analysis of these high-frequency systems illustrates the utility of the distributed ESD protection sche...

A Thyristor-Only Input ESD Protection Scheme for CMOS RF ICs

We propose an input protection scheme composed of thyristor devices only without using a clamp NMOS device in order to minimize the area consumed by a pad structure in CMOS RF ICs. For this purpose, we suggest low-voltage triggering thyristor protection device structures assuming usage of standard CMOS processes, and attempt an in-depth comparison study with a conventional thyristor protection ...

Effect of Indirect Electrostatic Discharge on LaunchPad Development Board

System-Level electrostatic discharge (ESD) has become increasingly demanding with silicon technology scaling towards lower voltages and the need for designing cost-effective and ultra-low power components. Indirect ESD test and direct air discharge test has been conducted on the MSP-EXP430G2 Launch Pad Development Board which has the state-of-the-art protection for system level ESD. The recogni...

Devices with Adjustable Dual-Polarity Trigger- and Holding-Voltage/Current for High Level of Electrostatic Discharge Protection in Sub-Micron Mixed Signal

Esd Protection Design for Rf Circuits in Cmos Technology with Low-c Implementation

To mitigate the radio-frequency (RF) performance degradation caused by electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device, low capacitance (low-C) design on ESD protection device is a solution. With the smaller layout area and small parasitic capacitance under the same ESD robustness, silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) device has been used as an effective on-chip ESD protection device in RF ICs. I...