Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed switches to suppress transient electrical overstress-induced latch-up
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Application No.: US15428535Application Date: 2017-02-09
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Publication No.: US10404059B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Javier Alejandro Salcedo , Srivatsan Parthasarathy , Linfeng He , Yuanzhong Zhou
- Applicant: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: H02H7/20
- IPC: H02H7/20 ; H01L23/528 ; H01L27/02 ; H01L27/092

Abstract:
Distributed switches to suppress transient electrical overstress-induced latch-up are provided. In certain configurations, an integrated circuit (IC) or semiconductor chip includes a transient electrical overstress detection circuit that activates a transient overstress detection signal in response to detecting a transient electrical overstress event between a pair of power rails. The IC further includes mixed-signal circuits and latch-up suppression switches distributed across the IC, and the latch-up suppression switches temporarily clamp the power rails to one another in response to activation of the transient overstress detection signal to inhibit latch-up of the mixed-signal circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180226788A1 DISTRIBUTED SWITCHES TO SUPPRESS TRANSIENT ELECTRICAL OVERSTRESS-INDUCED LATCH-UP Public/Granted day:2018-08-09
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