Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device having an ESD protection circuit
- Patent Title (中): 具有ESD保护电路的半导体器件
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Application No.: US12076325Application Date: 2008-03-17
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Publication No.: US07826186B2Publication Date: 2010-11-02
- Inventor: Masakazu Ikegami
- Applicant: Masakazu Ikegami
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2007-070133 20070319
- Main IPC: H02H9/00
- IPC: H02H9/00

Abstract:
When a manufacturing process becomes finer and a threshold value drops, a leakage current generates in a MOS transistor that is normally in an off-state. In order to suppress an influence of a leakage current that is generated in a protection transistor that constitutes a protection circuit on the internal circuit, an adjustor circuit that forms a transit path of the leakage current is disposed within the protection circuit, and a monitor circuit having the same circuit configuration as a configuration of the protection circuit is disposed to control an impedance of the transit path in the protection circuit and the monitor circuit so as to allow the leakage current to flow through the transit path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080232009A1 Semiconductor device having an ESD protection circuit Public/Granted day:2008-09-25
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