IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Fundamentals and Applications of Advanced Semiconductor Devices
A Latchup-Free ESD Power Clamp Circuit with Stacked-Bipolar Devices for High-Voltage Integrated Circuits
Jae-Young PARKJong-Kyu SONGChang-Soo JANGSan-Hong KIMWon-Young JUNGTaek-Soo KIM
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2009 Volume E92.C Issue 5 Pages 671-675

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The holding voltage of high-voltage devices under the snapback breakdown condition has been known to be much smaller than the power supply voltage. Such characteristics cause high-voltage ICs to be susceptible to the transient latch-up failure in the practical system applications, especially when these devices are used as the ESD power clamp circuit. A new latchup-free design of the ESD power clamp circuit with stacked-bipolar devices is proposed and successfully verified in a 0.35µm BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process to achieve the desired ESD level. The total holding voltage of the stacked-bipolar devices in the snapback breakdown condition can be larger than the power supply voltage.

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