BiCMOS devices
AssigneeHarris Corporation
InventorsAkira Ito, Michael David Church
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Abstract
A BiCMOS process which provides both low voltage (digital) and high voltage (analog) CMOS devices. The high voltage NMOS devices have a compensated drain formed by the NPN and PNP base implants. The PNP base plus the high voltage NMOS drain carrier concentrations are both optimized by adjustment of the two variables N base implant dose and P base implant dose; this determines the NPN base carrier concentration which turns out to provide good NPN characteristics. Low voltage NMOS source and drain implants employ a higher dose and may also be used for the high voltage NMOS source. The NPN emitter doping may also be used for a contact to the high voltage NMOS drain contact.
Claims4
An integrated circuit, comprising:
- (a) a semiconductor layer:
- (b) NPN transistors formed in said layer;
- (c) PNP transistors formed in said layer;
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- (d) first NMOS transistors with sources and drains formed in said layer, said first NMOS transistors with drains having p-type and n-type dopants and characterized by a dopant concentration equal to the dopant concentration of the base dopants of said PNP transistors minus the dopant concentration of the base dopants of said NPN transistors.
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