ESD PROTECTION CHARGE PUMP ACTIVE CLAMP FOR LOW-LEAKAGE APPLICATIONS

• Main Authors: Farbiz Farzan, Di Sarro James P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.04.2018
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS; GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Disclosed examples include an electrostatic discharge protection circuit including a shunt transistor coupled between first and second power supply nodes, a sensing circuit to deliver a control voltage signal to turn on the shunt transistor in response to a detected change in a voltage of the first...