ESD: Circuits and Devices

About the Author. Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: Electrostatic Discharge. 1.1 Electricity and Electrostatics Discharge. 1.2 Fundamental Concepts of ESD Design. 1.3 Time Constants. 1.4 Capacitance, Resistance and Inductance and ESD. 1.5 Rules of Thumb and ESD. 1.6 Lumped versus Distributed Analysis and ESD. 1.7 ESD Metrics and Figures of Merit. 1.8 Twelve Steps to Building an ESD Strategy. 1.9 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 2: Design Synthesis. 2.1 Synthesis and Architecture of a Semiconductor Chip for ESD Protection. 2.2 Electrical and Spatial Connectivity. 2.3 ESD, Latchup, and Noise. 2.4 Interface Circuits and ESD Elements. 2.5 ESD Power Clamps Networks. 2.6 ESD Rail-to-Rail Devices. 2.7 Guard Rings. 2.8 Pads, Floating Pads, and No Connect Pads. 2.9 Structures Under Bond Pads. 2.10 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 3: Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Design: MOSFET Design. 3.1 Basic ESD Design Concepts. 3.2 ESD MOSFET Design: Channel Width. 3.3 ESD MOSFET Design: Contact. 3.4 ESD MOSFET Design: Metal Distribution. 3.5 ESD MOSFET Design: Silicide Masking. 3.6 ESD MOSFET Design: Series Cascode Configurations. 3.7 ESD MOSFET Design: Multi-Finger Design Integration of Coupling and Ballasting Techniques. 3.8 ESD MOSFET Design: Enclosed Drain Design Practice. 3.9 ESD MOSFET Interconnect Ballasting Design. 3.10 ESD MOSFET Design: Source and Drain Segmentation. 3.11 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 4: Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Design: Diode Design. 4.1 ESD Diode Design: ESD Basic. 4.2 ESD Diode Design: Anode. 4.3 ESD Diode Design: Interconnect Wiring. 4.4 ESD Diode Design: Polysilicon-Bound Diode Designs. 4.5 ESD Diode Design: n-Well Diode Design. 4.6 ESD Diode Design: np/p Substrate Diode Design. 4.7 ESD Diode Design: Diode String. 4.8 ESD Diode Design: Triple-Well Diodes. 4.9 ESD Design: BiCMOS ESD Design. 4.10 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 5: Silicon on Insulator (SOI) ESD Design. 5.1 SOI ESD Basic Concepts. 5.2 SOI ESD Design: MOSFET with Body Contact (T-Shaped Layout). 5.3 SOI ESD Design: SOI Lateral Diode Structure. 5.4 SOI ESD Design: Buried Resistors (BR) Elements. 5.5 SOI ESD Design: SOI Dynamic Threshold MOSFET (DTMOS). 5.6 SOI ESD Design: Dual-Gate (DG) MOSFETs. 5.7 SOI ESD Design: FinFET Structure. 5.8 SOI ESD Design: Structures in the Bulk Substrate. 5.9 SOI ESD Design: SOI-To-Bulk Contact Structures. 5.10 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 6: Off-Chip Drivers (OCD) and ESD. 6.1 Off-Chip Drivers (OCD). 6.2 Off-Chip Drivers: Mixed-Voltage Interface. 6.3 Off-Chip Drivers Self-Bias Well OCD Networks. 6.4 Off-Chip Drivers: Programmable Impedance (PIMP) OCD Networks. 6.5 Off-Chip Drivers: Universal OCDs. 6.6 Off-Chip Drivers: Gate-Array OCD Design. 6.7 Off-Chip Drivers: Gate Modulated Networks. 6.8 Off-Chip Driver ESD Design: Integration of Coupling and Ballasting Techniques. 6.9 Off-Chip Driver ESD Design: Substrate-Modulated Resistor-Ballasted MOSFET. 6.10 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 7: Receiver Circuits and ESD. 7.1 Receivers and ESD. 7.2 Receivers and ESD. 7.3 Receivers and Receiver Evolution. 7.4 Receiver Circuits with Pseudo-Zero VT Half-Pass Transmission Gates. 7.5 Receiver Circuits with Zero Transmission Gate. 7.6 Receiver Circuits with Bleed Transistors. 7.7 Receiver Circuits with Test Functions. 7.8 Receiver With Schmitt Trigger Feedback Networks. 7.9 Bipolar Transistor Receivers. 7.10 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 8: SOI ESD Circuits and Design Integration. 8.1 SOI ESD Design Integration. 8.2 SOI ESD Design: Diode Design. 8.3 SOI ESD Diode Design: Mixed Voltage Interface (MVI) Environments. 8.4 SOI ESD Networks in SOI CPU with Aluminum (Al) Interconnects. 8.5 SOI ESD Design in Copper (Cu) Interconnects. 8.6 SOI ESD Design with Gate Circuitry. 8.7 SOI and Dynamic Threshold ESD Networks. 8.8 SOI Technology and Miscellaneous ESD Issues 8.9 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Chapter 9: ESD Power Clamps. 9.1 ESD Power Clamp Design Practices. 9.2 ESD Power Clamps: Diode-Based. 9.3 ESD Power Clamps: MOSFET-Based. 9.4 ESD Power Clamps: Bipolar-Based. 9.5 ESD Power Clamps: Silicon Controlled Rectifier-Based. 9.6 Summary and Closing Comments. Problems. References. Index.