Impact of Guard Ring Layout on the Stacked Low-Voltage PMOS for High-Voltage ESD Protection

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Liao, Seian-Feng [1 ]
Tang, Kai-Neng [1 ]
Ker, Ming-Dou [1 ]
Yeh, Jia-Rong [2 ]
Chiou, Hwa-Chyi [2 ]
Huang, Yeh-Jen [2 ]
Tsai, Chun-Chien [2 ]
Jou, Yeh-Ning [2 ]
Lin, Geeng-Lih [2 ]
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[1] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Elect, Hsinchu, Taiwan
[2] Vanguard Int Semicond Corp, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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DESIGN; LDMOS;
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and latchup prevention are two important reliability issues to the CMOS integrated circuits, especially in high-voltage (HV) applications. In this work, the stacked low-voltage (LV) PMOS devices have been successfully verified in a 0.5-mu m HV process to provide high ESD level with high holding voltage for HV applications. In addition, the guard-ring layout on the stacked LV PMOS devices was further investigated in silicon chip to get high ESD robustness and latchup-free immunity for HV applications.
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