High frequency integrated circuit
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazumasa Kohama
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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazumasa Kohama
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A high frequency integrated circuit equipped with an electrostatic protection device provided with a field effect transistor as an electrostatic protection device at the input and output of a high frequency integrated circuit, having excellent high frequency characteristics, and making an ESD withstand voltage large, having a high frequency circuit 11 having input/output terminals and an enhancement type field effect transistor 13 formed on a compound semiconductor substrate and provided in said high frequency circuit, having one terminal of the input/output terminals connected to the input/output terminals of the high frequency circuit, having the other terminal connected to a first reference potential, and having a gate connected via a resistor 14 to a second reference potential, and making an impedance of the field effect transistor 13 low for ESD protection when noise or a high voltage pulse is applied from the input/output terminals.
A high frequency integrated circuit comprising:
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