Electro-static discharge protection circuit
AssigneeRealtek Semiconductor Corp.
InventorsTAY-HER TSAUR, CHENG-CHENG YEN, CHIEN-MING WU, CHENG-PANG CHAN
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Abstract
This disclosure provides an ESD protection circuit coupled to a first and a second terminals of a differential-pair circuit. The ESD protection circuit includes: an ESD sensing unit coupled to the first and the second terminals and sensing electrical changes at the first and the second terminals to generate a first trigger signal; and a first discharging unit coupled to the ESD sensing unit and turning on a first discharging path according to the first trigger signal.
Claims10
An electro-static discharge (ESD) protection circuit coupled to a first terminal and a second terminal of a differential-pair circuit, the ESD protection circuit comprising:
- an ESD sensing unit being coupled to the first and the second terminals, and sensing electrical changes at the first and the second terminals to generate a first trigger signal;
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- a first discharging unit being coupled to the ESD sensing unit, and turning on a first discharging path according to the first trigger signal.
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