Title
A Low-Leakage, Robust ESD Clamp with Thyristor Delay Element in 65 nm CMOS Technology
Abstract
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a well-known problem in integrated circuits that affects its reliability, yield and cost. It is important to design ESD protection circuits that are ablet o prevent ESD related yield loss [1]. In this work, a 65 nm static clamp with a thyristor as a delay element to extend the on time of the clamp during the ESD event is presented. Simulation and measurement results show that the proposed clamp has fast response for ESD-like events. Extensive analysis demonstrates that the clamp is stable against false triggering, power supplynoise and has very low-leakage current. Measurement resultsshow that the clamp is capable of handling 3.21A of currentwhile its leakage is only 180pA. In addition, the measurementresults show that the proposed clamp demonstrates immunityagainst false triggering under the fast power-on condition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISVLSI.2016.57
2016 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electrostatic discharge (ESD),ESD protection circuit,ESD power supply clamps,Human Body Model (HBM),Leakage current
Logic gate,Leakage (electronics),Electrostatic discharge,Clamp,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Thyristor,Engineering,Electronic circuit,Electrical engineering,Integrated circuit
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2159-3469
978-1-4673-9040-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elghazali, M.100.68
Manoj Sachdev266988.45
Ajoy Opal3125.37