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Circuit and Layout Co-Design for ESD Protection in Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) High-Voltage Process. v' s' p' l+ n9 R& S: [0 o* }0 a
3 Z$ P q% r( O% ^8 hWen-Yi Chen, Student Member, IEEE, and Ming-Dou Ker, Fellow, IEEE5 C0 i& p/ Q- C1 b6 x: c- j: j
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Abstract—The n-channel lateral double-diffused metal–oxide–# u2 |8 B0 A( F n w3 [8 b
semiconductor (nLDMOS) devices in high-voltage (HV) technologies
O9 x5 q @1 k9 Z/ u Uare known to have poor electrostatic discharge (ESD)
# `8 B8 P; `1 F7 B7 a1 S( x: lrobustness. To improve the ESD robustness of nLDMOS, a co-design3 { i" Y! g+ ]+ o9 E" Y5 m
method combining a new waffle layout structure and a trigger3 g p. g+ \' f; W' w ?7 o& g
circuit is proposed to fulfill the body current injection technique
! n/ X ~- b1 din this work. The proposed layout and circuit co-design method
+ `* c, w k) E. y4 }- von HV nLDMOS has successfully been verified in a 0.5- m 16-V0 q2 w w( p7 F* y
bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process and a 0.35- m 24-V BCD
7 f2 H7 A' X: I' t& Sprocess without using additional process modification. Experimental
2 [0 U; ~0 o8 x/ W7 vresults through transmission line pulse measurement, s; L5 W6 e5 a) V
and failure analyses have shown that the proposed body current1 K! \6 W1 B9 m5 Y
injection technique can significantly improve the ESD robustness
1 Y" ?. D8 ]) X' f/ Tof HV nLDMOS.6 { O. R8 \9 J- J }9 Z3 C0 h7 W# M
5 K l1 {2 W6 d; G4 }! r+ IIndex Terms—Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process, body q: V& c, Z g
current injection, electrostatic discharge (ESD), lateral double-diffused% A7 E0 W7 e" a3 Z! G/ J
metal–oxide–semiconductor (LDMOS). |
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