Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrostatic discharge measuring device
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Application No.: US16365415Application Date: 2019-03-26
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Publication No.: US11054451B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Matthew Clay Lauderdale , Robert Scott Ruth , Emmanuel U. Onyegam
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: G01R29/08
- IPC: G01R29/08 ; G01R29/12 ; H02H1/00

Abstract:
An electrostatic discharge measuring device includes an integrated circuit including a collector, a discharge pad and an ESD detector circuit coupled to the collector and discharge pad. The ESD detector circuit includes a device that detects occurrence and magnitude of an electrostatic discharge between the collector and the discharge pad. In one embodiment, the device is a metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor. In another embodiment, the device is a thin film storage bitcell. In one embodiment, the electrostatic discharge measuring device is contained in a test microelectronic package. A method includes running the test microelectronic package through a manufacturing process to determine location during manufacturing at which an electrostatic discharge occurs when an externally-similar production microelectronic packages is run through the same manufacturing process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200309834A1 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE MEASURING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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