Surge protection design with surge-to-digital converter for microelectronic circuits and systems

Wen Chieh Chen, Ming-Dou Ker*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A surge protection design with surge-to-digital converter is proposed to provide the surge protection for microelectronic products with more flexible applications. The proposed surge-to-digital converter can transfer the occurrences of the surge events into digital output codes by classifying the voltage levels of surge events. It can be used to avoid unwanted power-on reset action, redundant power consumption, or unexpected soft errors, achieving the stability improvement of microelectronic systems. With this surge-to-digital converter, a surge protection design against a surge test of 25 V can clamp the peak voltage of VDD from 22.2 V to 5.6 V. The proposed converter has been verified in a 0.18-μm CMOS process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2-5
Number of pages4
JournalMicroelectronics Reliability
Volume88-90
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2018

Keywords

  • Electrical overstress (EOS)
  • Surge
  • Surge detection
  • Surge protection
  • Surge-to-digital converter

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