TY - GEN
T1 - 2 X VDD-tolerant power-rail ESD clamp circuit with low standby leakage in 65-nm CMOS process
AU - Lin, Chun Yu
AU - Ker, Ming Dou
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - With the consideration of low standby leakage in nanoscale CMOS processes, a new 2xVDD-tolerant ESD clamp circuit was presented in this paper. The new ESD clamp circuit had a high-voltage-tolerant ESD detection circuit to improve the turn-on efficiency of the silicon-controlled-rectifier-based (SCR-based) ESD device. This design had been successfully verified in a 65-nm CMOS process. The leakage current of this ESD clamp circuit under normal circuit operating condition was only ∼200 nA. Besides, this ESD clamp circuit can achieve 4.8-kV HBM ESD robustness. Therefore, this design was very suitable for mixed-voltage I/O interfaces in nanoscale CMOS processes.
AB - With the consideration of low standby leakage in nanoscale CMOS processes, a new 2xVDD-tolerant ESD clamp circuit was presented in this paper. The new ESD clamp circuit had a high-voltage-tolerant ESD detection circuit to improve the turn-on efficiency of the silicon-controlled-rectifier-based (SCR-based) ESD device. This design had been successfully verified in a 65-nm CMOS process. The leakage current of this ESD clamp circuit under normal circuit operating condition was only ∼200 nA. Besides, this ESD clamp circuit can achieve 4.8-kV HBM ESD robustness. Therefore, this design was very suitable for mixed-voltage I/O interfaces in nanoscale CMOS processes.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537864
DO - 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537864
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955997292
SN - 9781424453085
T3 - ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems
SP - 3417
EP - 3420
BT - ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems, ISCAS 2010
Y2 - 30 May 2010 through 2 June 2010
ER -