公开(公告)号：CA2755284A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-21

申请号：CA2755284

申请日：2010-03-18

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CAMPI JOHN B ,  CHANG SHUNHUA T ,  CHATTY KIRAN V ,  GAUTHIER ROBERT J ,  LI JUNJUN ,  MUHAMAD MUJAHID

IPC: H01L23/60 ,  H01L21/336

Abstract: A robust ESD protection circuit, method and design structure for tolerant and failsafe designs are disclosed. A circuit (200) includes a middle junction control circuit (250) that turns off a top NFET (225) of a stacked NFET electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit (pad 215, ground 220, top NFET 225, bottom NFET 230, top resistor 235, and bottom resistor 240) during an ESD event.