Patent ID: 7508038

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: an electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure, the ESD transistor structure comprising: a source region of a first conductivity type; a gate electrode that extends in a first dimension; an outrigger that extends parallel to the gate electrode in the first dimension, the outrigger being separated from the gate electrode by at most approximately 0.4 microns; a channel region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, the channel region underlying the gate electrode; a lightly doped region of the first conductivity type, the lightly doped region underlying the outrigger; a first drain region of the first conductivity type that extends from the channel region to the lightly doped region; and a second drain region of the first conductivity type, the lightly doped region lying between the first drain region and the second drain region, the first and second drain regions being more heavily doped than the lightly doped region.