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US 12,393,220 B2Granted
Substrate current suppression circuit, reference voltage generation circuit, and semiconductor device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Koshida, Shinzo Koyama, Tatsuya Kabe, Masaki Tamaru
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Abstract
A substrate current suppression circuit includes: a fixed voltage line that supplies a fixed voltage to the collectors of the third and fourth transistors. The fixed voltage is a voltage higher than the base voltage of the third and fourth transistors when the first polarity is p type, and is a voltage lower than the base voltage when the first polarity is n type.
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A substrate current suppression circuit comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate of a first polarity, the semiconductor substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides;
- a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor on a first principal surface side of the semiconductor substrate;
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- a fixed voltage line that supplies a fixed voltage to a collector of the third transistor and a collector of the fourth transistor, wherein
- each of a collector of the first transistor and a collector of the second transistor is connected to a substrate region of the first polarity on a second principal surface side in the semiconductor substrate,
- a polarity of the third transistor is opposite to a polarity of the first transistor,
- a polarity of the fourth transistor is opposite to a polarity of the second transistor, and
- the fixed voltage is a voltage higher than a base voltage of the third transistor and the fourth transistor when the first polarity is p type, and is a voltage lower than the base voltage when the first polarity is n type.
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