Abstract:
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) has been a major concern for IC chip quality. In this paper, the IC damage phenomena due to ESD and the protection techniques are reviewed. ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) has been a major concern for IC chip quality. In this paper, the IC damage phenomena due to ESD and the protection techniques are reviewed. Also, the severe impact of the advanced process technologies on the ESD robustness, and the special circuit requirements that make the protection design even more challenging will be addressed. The recently developed simulation and modeling methods to improve the protection designs are also discussed.
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (Cat. No.01CH37169)
Date of Conference: 09-09 May 2001
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 07 August 2002
Print ISBN:0-7803-6591-7