Esd protection device for sst transmitter
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCarrie E. Cox, Robert J. Gauthier, JR., Junjun Li, Xingle Wang
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention provide for an ESD protection device for an SST transmitter. In one embodiment, the ESD protection device includes: a primary ESD protection structure at an output of the SST transmitter; and an additional protection ESD structure in parallel with a slice of the SST transmitter, the additional ESD protection structure including: a first device in parallel with a pull-up transistor network within the slice; and a second device in parallel with a pull-down transistor network within the slice.
Claims20
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for a high-speed source serial termination (SST) transmitter, the ESD protection device comprising:
- a primary ESD protection structure at an output of the SST transmitter;
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- an additional ESD protection structure in parallel with a slice of the SST transmitter, the additional ESD protection structure including:
- a first device in parallel with a pull-up transistor network within the slice;
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- a second device in parallel with a pull-down transistor network within the slice.
A design structure tangibly embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit, the design structure comprising
- an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for a high-speed source serial termination (SST) transmitter, the ESD protection device comprising:
- a primary ESD protection structure at an output of the SST transmitter;
- and
- an additional ESD protection structure in parallel with a slice of the SST transmitter, the additional protection ESD structure including:
- a first device in parallel with a pull-up transistor network within the slice;
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- a second device in parallel with a pull-down transistor network within the slice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.