ESD protection design for high-speed circuits in nanoscale CMOS process

Abstract

To protect the high-speed integrated circuits from electrostatic discharge (ESD) damages, the ESD protection design of inductor-assisted silicon-controlled rectifier (LASCR) is investigated in this work. Compared with the conventional ESD protection design of dual-diode, the LASCR has better high-speed performances and higher ESD robustness. Therefore, the LASCR is very suitable for high-speed applications.