Hoffman Warnick LLC
ESD protection device for SST transmitter
Aspects of the invention provide for an ESD protection device for an SST transmitter. In one embodiment, the ESD protection device includes: a primary ESD protection structure at an output of the SST transmitter; and an additional protection ESD structure in parallel with a slice of the SST transmitter, the additional ESD protection structure including: a first device in parallel with a pull-up transistor network within the slice; and a second device in parallel with a pull-down transistor network within the slice.
International Business Machines Corporation
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inventional inventional
Xingle Junjun Carrie E. Robert J.
Wang Li Cox Gauthier, Jr.