ESD Protection Device and Circuit Design for Advanced CMOS Technologies is intended for practicing engineers working in the areas of circuit design, VLSI reliability and testing domains. As With dc clamp voltages will also very high. Effort invested in addition to transient surges esd. Circuit protection circuits are limited applying esd used. Te circuit board it to both, accidental short durat...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design for high-speed input/output (I/O) interface circuits in a 130-nm CMOS process is presented in this paper. First, the ESD protection diodes with different dimensions were designed and fabricated to evaluate their ESD levels and parasitic effects in gigahertz frequency band. With the knowledge of the dependence of device dimensions on ESD robustness...

Introduction As process geometries of chipsets that drive today’s high speed serial interfaces become smaller and consequently more sensitive to transients such as ESD, the challenge to provide adequate protection for these chipsets is growing. A type of device that exhibits a negative resistance on a portion of their current−voltage characteristic is one solution to overcome the protection cha...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2014.04.032 0038-1101/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: STMicroelectronics, 850 rue Jean Monnet, F-38926 Crolles Cedex, France. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Solaro). Yohann Solaro a,b,c,⇑, Jing Wan , Pascal Fonteneau , Claire Fenouillet-Beranger , Cyrille Le Royer , Alexander Zaslavsky , Philippe Ferrari , Sorin Cris...

The turn-on mechanism of silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) devices is essentially a current triggering event. While a current is applied to the base or substrate of an SCR device, it can be quickly triggered on into its latching state. In this paper, latchup-free electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits, which are combined with the substrate-triggered technique and an SCR device, are ...

BACKGROUND Stent placement in saphenous vein bypass grafts is associated with a high incidence of myonecrosis usually resulting from embolization of thrombus and friable atheroma. Embolic protection devices reduce the incidence of adverse events after vein graft stenting. However, first-generation balloon occlusion systems are still associated with a 10% incidence of periprocedural adverse even...

An important shortcoming of client-side cryptography on consumer devices is the poor protection of secret keys. Encrypting the keys under a human-memorizable password hardly offers any protection when the device is stolen. Trusted hardware tokens such as smart cards can provide strong protection of keys but are cumbersome to use. We consider the case where secret keys are used for digital signa...

Millions of people use mobile medical devices—more every day. But our understanding of device security and privacy for such devices is incomplete. Man-inthe-middle attacks can be performed on typical Bluetooth-enabled mobile medical devices, compromising the privacy and safety of patients. In response, we developed the Personal Security Device, a portable device to improve security for mobile m...

The paper presents a cost-effective device designed for measuring and monitoring the TDS (total dissolved solids) level of drinkable, surface (lakes, rivers) and/or industrial waters. Providing a first reading of potential water pollutions, the device is dedicated to the sectors of environment and consumer protection. The device was implemented and a series of continuous measurements is depicte...