Internal-Distributed CDM ESD Protection

CDM ESD protection is a major ESD protection design challenge for advanced ICs, often suffering from random design failures. It was recently reported that the traditional pad-based CDM ESD protection method is fundamentally faulty, contributing to design uncertainties in CDM ESD testing and field fa...

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Published in2021 5th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM) pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors Di, Mengfu, Pan, Zijin, Li, Cheng, Wang, Albert
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 08.04.2021
Subjects
CMOS technology
Electrostatic discharges
Foundries
Integrated circuits
Manufacturing
Oscillators
Uncertainty
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Summary:CDM ESD protection is a major ESD protection design challenge for advanced ICs, often suffering from random design failures. It was recently reported that the traditional pad-based CDM ESD protection method is fundamentally faulty, contributing to design uncertainties in CDM ESD testing and field failures. This paper reports a novel internally distributed CDM ESD protection method to overcome this major design challenge, which was validated using an internal-CDM-protected oscillator IC implemented in a foundry 45nm SPO CMOS technology. (Keywords: ESD, CDM, SOI, VFTLP, distributed)
DOI:10.1109/EDTM50988.2021.9421054