Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving method for a semiconductor element which is integrated into a VLSI process readily. SOLUTION: The semiconductor has a substrate (1; 5), a conductive strip (10; 10a to d) which is arranged to the substrate (1; 5), and first and second electrical contacts (11, 12; 11a to d, 12a to d) which are connected to a polysilicon conductor strip (10; 10a to d) to form an electrical resistance between them. A semiconductor element is driven reversibly in a fixed current/voltage range. In the current/voltage range, a semiconductor element has a first differential resistance (Rdiff1 ) up to and including a current limit value (It ) corresponding to an upper voltage limit value (Vt ) and, at current values greater than the current limit value, it has a second differential resistance (Rdiff2 ) which is less than the first differential resistance (Rdiff1 ).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining the ESD/latch-up resistance of an integrated circuit, said method comprising the following steps: an integrated circuit (1, 2) and a test structure (N3) are simultaneously produced by means of the same process steps; electrical parameters of the test structure (N3) are measured; characteristic values are derived from the measured parameter values, said characteristic values characterising an ESD or latch-up characteristic curve associated with the integrated circuit (1, 2); and it is checked whether the characteristic values are respectively contained in a pre-determined range associated with the same. The ranges are selected in such a way that a desired ESD/latch-up resistance is achieved when the characteristic values are respectively contained in their range.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a CMOS transistor (T) comprising a plurality of individual transistors (T1 Tn) which are connected in a parallel manner. Said individual transistors (T1- Tn) are respectively supplied with an additional series resistor (R). The above-mentioned circuit offers a protection against electrostatic re-charging combined with good high frequency properties of a CMOS transistor and is particularly suitable for analog circuits.
Abstract:
An electronic component comprises: a doped substrate; at least one connection region formed in the doped substrate; at least one additional doped region formed in the doped substrate at least below the at least one connection region, where the at least one doped region is formed as an electrostatic discharges (ESD) region for protection against electrostatically generated discharges; at least one well region formed in the doped substrate, where the well region is formed in such a way that the well region doping is blocked at least below the at least one doped region. An independent claim is included for producing the electronic component involving: doping the substrate with doping atoms to form forming at least one connection region of the electronic component in the substrate; doping the substrate with doping atoms to form at least one doped region in the substrate located at least below the at least one connection region; and doping the substrate with doping atoms to form at least one well region in the substrate, where the well region doping is blocked at least below the at least one doped region in such a way that the doping intensity in each region blocked from the well region doping corresponds to the doping intensity of the substrate or remains unchanged until the end of the production of the electronic component.
Abstract:
A bipolar safety transistor (T1) has an emitter area (15), a base area (10) and a collector area with a first section (17) bordering on the base area and a second section (3) bordering on the first section. A current voltage characteristic curve for a reversible collector-emitter channeling in the safety transistor with increasing current density shows a first voltage kickback onto a first withstand voltage and then a second voltage kickback onto a second withstand voltage. An Independent claim is also included for a method for building a bipolar safety transistor for an integrated circuit.
Abstract:
An ESD protective circuit protects an input or output of a monolithically integrated circuit. The ESD protective circuit has at least one bipolar transistor structure and one ESD protective element between two supply networks. The emitter of the bipolar transistor structure is electrically connected to the input or output, while the base is electrically connected to one of the two supply networks. The collector produces a current signal, which is used for triggering of the ESD protective element, when an ESD load occurs at the input or output.