Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11016409 | Microelectronics Reliability | 2018 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A surge protection design with surge-to-digital converter is proposed to provide the surge protection for microelectronic products with more flexible applications. The proposed surge-to-digital converter can transfer the occurrences of the surge events into digital output codes by classifying the voltage levels of surge events. It can be used to avoid unwanted power-on reset action, redundant power consumption, or unexpected soft errors, achieving the stability improvement of microelectronic systems. With this surge-to-digital converter, a surge protection design against a surge test of 25â¯V can clamp the peak voltage of VDD from 22.2â¯V to 5.6â¯V. The proposed converter has been verified in a 0.18-μm CMOS process.
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Authors
Wen-Chieh Chen, Ming-Dou Ker,