Patent ID: 7885047

Claim:
A integrated circuit device having adaptive electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and noise signal rejection, comprising: an external connection adapted for connection to a data bus; a data bus interface coupled to the external connection; a circuit function coupled to the data bus interface; an ESD protection circuit coupled to the external connection and a common of the integrated circuit device; an ESD enhancement capacitor coupled to the external connection; an ESD capacitor control, wherein the ESD capacitance control proportionally couples the ESD enhancement capacitor into the ESD protection circuit when an input of the ESD capacitor control is at certain control voltages until a maximum voltage is reached then the ESD capacitor control decouples the ESD enhancement capacitor from the ESD protection circuit when the input of the ESD capacitor control is at the maximum voltage; a high pass filter coupled to the external connection, wherein the high pass filter passes high frequency noise signals but not low frequency data signals; and a signal amplitude detector coupled to the high pass filter, wherein when the high frequency noise signals are present on the external connection the signal amplitude detector applies the certain control voltages to the ESD capacitor control in proportion to the high frequency noise signals received by the signal amplitude detector.