Title
A novel low-leakage power-rail ESD clamp circuit with adjustable triggering voltage and superior false-triggering immunity for nanoscale applications
Abstract
This work presents a novel power-rail electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit for nanoscale applications. By skillfully incorporating transient and static ESD detection mechanisms into its detection circuit, the proposed circuit achieves a wide range of adjustable triggering voltage (Ft1) while maintaining low standby leakage current (Ileak). Besides, the proposed circuit achieves significantly-improved false-triggering immunity compared with the transient-triggered circuit. All investigated circuits are fabricated in a 65-nm CMOS process. Simulation and test results have both confirmed the superiority of the proposed circuit. In addition, the proposed circuit achieves similar triggering behaviors in both transmission line pulsing (TLP) and very fast TLP (VF-TLP) tests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7527221
2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electrostatic discharge (ESD),detection circuit,triggering voltage (Vt1),leakage current (Ileak),transmission line pulsing (TLP) test
Logic gate,Nanoscopic scale,Transmission line,Leakage (electronics),Computer science,Electrostatic discharge,Voltage,Electronic engineering,Electronic circuit,Electrical engineering,Clamper
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0271-4302
978-1-4799-5342-4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangyi Lu185.15
Yuan Wang21713.39
Jian Cao374.76
Song Jia467.00
zhang5109.77