Electrical overstress recording and/or harvesting

AJ O'donnell, D Aherne, JA Salcedo, DJ Clarke… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Aspects of this disclosure relate to detecting and recording information associated with
electrical overstress (EOS) events, such as electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. For …

Stacked MOSFET protection circuit

Y Urakawa - US Patent 6,781,805, 2004 - Google Patents
Disclosed is a protection circuit capable of avoiding break down of a gate insulating film of a
MOSFET and having an appropriate Snap-back Voltage in terms of reliability. In order to …

High voltage tolerant supply clamp

S Parthasarathy, JA Salcedo - US Patent 9,293,912, 2016 - Google Patents
The systems, methods, and devices of the invention each have several aspects, no single
one of which is solely respon sible for its desirable attributes. Without limiting the scope of …

Noise immune RC trigger for ESD protection

D Bernard, A Riviere - US Patent 7,570,468, 2009 - Google Patents
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection is a critical prob lem for modern integrated circuits.
With a low breakdown Voltage of transistors in Submicron processes, it is important to …

Electrostatic discharge protection circuit with cascoded trigger-switch suitable for use with over-voltage tolerant CMOS input/output buffers

R Pasqualini - US Patent 6,690,555, 2004 - Google Patents
Thus, a need has arisen for an electrostatic discharge protection circuit with a trigger-Switch
that addresses the disadvantages and deficiencies of the prior art. In particular, a need has …

ESD protection techniques

BT Chen, TH Chang - US Patent 8,867,183, 2014 - Google Patents
Some embodiments relate to an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device to protect a
circuit that is electrically con nected to first and second circuit nodes from an ESD event. The …

Electrical over-stress detection circuit

DA Shannon, AL Westwick - US Patent 8,238,068, 2012 - Google Patents
In an embodiment, an electrical over-stress (EOS) circuit includes a detection circuit coupled
between first and second Supply terminals and configured to detect a perturbation in a …

Cascode active shunt gate oxide project during electrostatic discharge event

GM Ansel, M Nagarajan, J Philpott - US Patent 7,385,793, 2008 - Google Patents
US7385793B1 - Cascode active shunt gate oxide project during electrostatic discharge event -
Google Patents US7385793B1 - Cascode active shunt gate oxide project during electrostatic …

Wear-out monitor device

EJ Coyne, AJ O'donnell, S Bradley, D Aherne… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out
monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device …

Power pin to power pin electro-static discharge (ESD) clamp

D Bhattacharya, J Kriz, CC Leung, DJ Loeper… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
An ESD clamp circuit for use between separate power rails. An ESD clamp is based on a
wide nMOSFET. A symmetrical circuit is designed vis-a-vis the two power rails, with respect …