Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrostatic discharge(ESD) protective network, which has such structural and functional features that meet the nonsensitive requirements of a substrate for noise and accordingly, can isolate various circuit blocks from noise or disturbance. SOLUTION: An ESD protective network incorporates first ESD protective parts 14 for the input stage of a circuit structure, second ESD protective parts 5 for the output stage of the circuit structure, at least one ESD protective parts B0 between a primary power source Vcc and a primary ground GND, and at least one EDGE protective parts B between a secondary power source Vcc- IO and a secondary ground GND- IO, and the first and second protective parts 15 and 5 commonly use the input-output terminal 20 of an integrated circuit structure.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the ESD protection of an electronic element. SOLUTION: This method and circuit structure is for reforming the effect of protection of an ESD in circuit structure made in a semiconductor substrate, covered with the epitaxial layer 3 which is equipped with at least one ESD protecting lateral bipolar transistor 5 formed at the surface of the epitaxial layer 3, and a circuit structure so as to form a well 4 which is isolated from a substrate 2 under the transistor 5. The bipolar transistor 5 is completely isolated from the substrate 2 by first (10) and second (11) n-type wells which extend downward from the epitaxial layer 3 to the embedded well 4 and in contact with it. COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO
Abstract:
A method and a related circuit structure are described for improving the effectiveness of ESD protection in circuit structures realized in a semiconductor substrate overlaid with an epitaxial layer and including at least one ESD protection lateral bipolar transistor realized in the surface of the epitaxial layer. The method consists of forming under the transistor an isolating well that isolates the transistor from the substrate. Advantageously, the transistor can be fully isolated from the substrate by first and second N wells which extend from the surface of the epitaxial layer down to and in contact with the buried well.