TY - GEN
T1 - New design on 2VDD-tolerant power-rail ESD clamp circuit with low standby leakage in 65nm CMOS process
AU - Yeh, Chih Ting
AU - Ker, Ming-Dou
PY - 2012/7/25
Y1 - 2012/7/25
N2 - A 2VDD-tolerant power-rail electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit with only thin gate oxide 1V devices and silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) as main ESD clamp device has been proposed and verified in a 65nm CMOS process. The proposed power-rail ESD clamp circuit has an ultra-low standby leakage current by reducing the voltage drop across the gate oxide of the devices in the ESD detection circuit. From the measured results, the proposed design with SCR dimension of 50m in width can achieve 6.5kV human-body-model (HBM), 300V machine-model (MM) ESD levels, and an ultra-low standby leakage current of 34.1nA at room temperature under the normal circuit operating condition with 1.8V bias.
AB - A 2VDD-tolerant power-rail electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit with only thin gate oxide 1V devices and silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) as main ESD clamp device has been proposed and verified in a 65nm CMOS process. The proposed power-rail ESD clamp circuit has an ultra-low standby leakage current by reducing the voltage drop across the gate oxide of the devices in the ESD detection circuit. From the measured results, the proposed design with SCR dimension of 50m in width can achieve 6.5kV human-body-model (HBM), 300V machine-model (MM) ESD levels, and an ultra-low standby leakage current of 34.1nA at room temperature under the normal circuit operating condition with 1.8V bias.
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U2 - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2012.6212606
DO - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2012.6212606
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864075457
SN - 9781457720819
T3 - 2012 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2012 - Proceedings of Technical Papers
BT - 2012 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2012 - Proceedings of Technical Papers
T2 - 2012 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2012
Y2 - 23 April 2012 through 25 April 2012
ER -