摘要:
A charge pump circuit is provided with a capacitor for generating a boosted voltage from a power supply voltage in response to a clock signal; and an output node from which the boosted voltage is externally outputted. The capacitor includes a first well formed within a substrate, a second well formed within the first well, first and second diffusion regions formed within the second well to receive the clock signal, a channel region provided between the first and second diffusion regions in which channel region a channel is formed in response to the clock signal; and an electrode positioned over the channel region across a dielectric and connected with the output node. The output node is also connected with the first well to apply said boosted voltage to the first well.
摘要:
A high breakdown-voltage diode is provided, which has a decreased chip area and a low electric resistance between anode and cathode regions after the breakdown phenomenon takes place. A semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type is vertically isolated by a first isolation dielectric and laterally isolated by a second isolation dielectric from outside. A first diffusion region of a second conductivity type is formed in a surface area of the semiconductor layer, thereby forming a first p-n junction. A second diffusion region of the first conductivity type is formed in the surface area to be apart from the first diffusion region. A third diffusion region of the second conductivity type is formed in the surface area between the first and second diffusion regions, thereby forming a second p-n junction. The third diffusion region is electrically connected to the first diffusion region. A depletion region formed at the second p-n junction grows according to a reverse voltage applied across the first and second diffusion regions, so that each end of the depletion region extends to a surface of the third diffusion region and to the first isolation dielectric while no breakdown occurs at the first p-n junction, relaxing an electric filed existing near the first p-n junction.
摘要:
In a high voltage MOS transistor, in a portion immediately below the gate electrode, peaks of concentration distribution in depth direction of a first conductivity type impurity and a second conductivity type impurity in the drain offset region are in the same depth, the second conductivity type impurity being higher concentrated than the first conductivity type impurity.
摘要:
A power switch circuit includes an output transistor which is connected between a first power supply terminal and an output terminal, and drives a load, an abnormality detecting circuit which detects an abnormal state of the output transistor, a resistance element which generates a resistance component by a diffusion layer formed on a well region, and is provided between an input terminal and a control terminal of the output transistor, and a well potential switching circuit which switches a voltage to be supplied to the well region between a voltage of the output terminal and a voltage of a second power supply terminal based on a detection result by the abnormality detecting circuit.
摘要:
A high withstand voltage diode for protecting a high-voltage transistor has a first region 2 of a second conductivity type formed on the substrate of a first conductivity type, a high-concentration second region 5 of the second type formed on the first region 2, a third region 3 of the first conductivity type formed so as to, be adjacent to the first region 2, a high-concentration fourth region 4 of the first conductivity type formed on the surface of the third region 3, and a gate electrode 7 that straddles the first region 2 and the third region 3 with an intervening gate oxide film, and which is electrically connected to the fourth region.
摘要:
A bidirectional switch includes a first switch and a second switch. The switch includes a well region of a first-conductivity-type formed on a semiconductor substrate, and serving as drains of the first switch and the second switch, a gate electrode of the first switch provided in a first trench formed in the well region through a first gate insulating film, a gate electrode of the second switch formed in a second trench formed in the well region so as to be spaced apart from the first trench with a second gate insulating film, a source region of the first switch formed on a side wall of the first trench, and on a surface of the well region via a first channel region of a second-conductivity-type, and a source region of the second switch formed on a side wall of the second trench, and on a surface of the well region via a second channel region of the second-conductivity-type. The well region is formed in a region between the first trench and the second trench.
摘要:
A power switch circuit includes an output transistor which is connected between a first power supply terminal and an output terminal, and drives a load, an abnormality detecting circuit which detects an abnormal state of the output transistor, a resistance element which generates a resistance component by a diffusion layer formed on a well region, and is provided between an input terminal and a control terminal of the output transistor, and a well potential switching circuit which switches a voltage to be supplied to the well region between a voltage of the output terminal and a voltage of a second power supply terminal based on a detection result by the abnormality detecting circuit.
摘要:
In a dead time control circuit, a delay circuit is connected to an input terminal and adapted to delay signals therethrough by a delay time corresponding to a dead time. A logic circuit has a first input connected via the delay circuit to the input terminal, a second input connected directly to the input terminal, and an output connected to an output terminal. The dead time having adjustable temperature characteristics.
摘要:
In a dead time control circuit, a delay circuit is connected to an input terminal and adapted to delay signals therethrough by a delay time corresponding to a dead time. A logic circuit has a first input connected via the delay circuit to the input terminal, a second input connected directly to the input terminal, and an output connected to an output terminal. The dead time having adjustable temperature characteristics.
摘要:
The invention relates to a field effect transistor that ensures that a threshold voltage does not increase even if a breakdown voltage is increased. The field effect transistor (FET) includes: (a) a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate; (b) a second conductivity type well formed at a surface of the substrate; (c) a first conductivity type well formed at a surface of the second conductivity type well, the first conductivity type well having an impurity concentration profile that varies in a depthwise direction with a maximum impurity concentration located at the deepest vertical position of the first conductivity type well; (d) a second conductivity type source region, formed at a surface of the first conductivity type well; (e) a second conductivity type drain region formed at a surface of the second conductivity type well; (f) a gate insulating film, formed at a surface of the first conductivity type semiconductor substrate between the source and drain regions; (g) a gate electrode, formed on the gate insulating film; (h) a source electrode, formed on the source region; and, (i) a drain electrode, formed on the drain region.