New transient detection circuit for on-chip protection design against system-level electrical-transient disturbance

Ming-Dou Ker*, Cheng Cheng Yen

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    Abstract

    A new transient detection circuit for on-chip protection design against system-level electrical-transient disturbance is proposed in this paper. The circuit function to detect positive or negative electrical transients under system-level electrostatic-discharge (ESD) and electrical-fast-transient (EFT) testing conditions has been investigated by HSPICE simulation and verified in silicon chip. The experimental results in a 0.18- μm complementary- metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS) process have confirmed that the new proposed on-chip transient detection circuit can successfully memorize the occurrence of system-level electrical-transient disturbance events. The output of the proposed on-chip transient detection circuit can be used as a firmware index to execute the system recovery procedure. With hardware/firmware codesign, the transient disturbance immunity of microelectronic products equipped with CMOS integrated circuits under system-level ESD or EFT tests can be significantly improved.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5406116
    Pages (from-to)3533-3543
    Number of pages11
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
    Volume57
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Oct 2010

    Keywords

    • Electrical-fast-transient (EFT) test
    • electromagnetic compatibility
    • electrostatic discharge (ESD)
    • system-level ESD test
    • transient detection circuit

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