High-bandwidth signal driver/receiver

    公开(公告)号:US11831153B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-28

    申请号:US16940679

    申请日:2020-07-28

    IPC分类号: H02H9/04 H01L25/18 H03H7/01

    摘要: A tuned single-coil inductor is implemented between a signal driver output and external contact of an ESD-protected integrated circuit (IC) die and more specifically between the parasitic capacitances of the signal driver and the contact-coupled ESD (electrostatic discharge) element to form a Pi (π) filter that enhances signaling bandwidth at the target signaling rate of the IC die. The signal driver may be implemented with output-stage data serialization circuitry disposed in series between source terminals of a thick-oxide drive transistor and a power rail to avoid explicit level-shifting circuitry between the relatively low core voltage domain and relatively high I/O voltage domain.