Electrostatic discharge (ESD) continues to impact semiconductor components and systems as technologies scale from micro- to nanoelectronics. ESD Analog Circuits and Design provides a clear picture of layout and design of analog and power applications for protection from electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrical overstress (EOS), and latchup phenomena from a generalist perspective.
It provides an illuminating insight into the layout and design of analog circuitry and digital–analog system-on-chip (SOC) followed by examples in specific technologies, circuits, and chips. The book is unique in covering both the analog design practices and ESD design synthesis to provide optimum solutions in advanced technologies.
Look inside for extensive coverage on:
• Fundamentals of analog design practices and how they influence the ESD design circuitry, from integration, synthesis, and layout, such as symmetry, matching, interdigitation, and common centroid techniques;
• Examples of basic analog and power applications, including differential receivers, comparators, error amplifiers, and current mirrors;
• Cosynthesizing of semiconductor chip architecture and floorplanning for analog and mixed signal applications for cores and periphery;
• Analysis of digital-to-analog interdomain signal line and pin-to-pin ESD failure mechanisms;
• Examples of ESD and EOS issues in state-of-the-art analog and power technologies, including CMOS, bipolar, LDMOS, and BCD, high-voltage CMOS (HVCMOS), and ultra-high-voltage (UHV CMOS);
• ESD and EOS program documents, checklists, cookbooks, and release processes; and
• ESD design rule checking (DRC), LVS , and ERC electronic design automation (EDA) for analog–digital mixed signal design.
ESD Analog Circuits and Design is a continuation of the author’s series of books on ESD protection. It is an essential reference for ESD, circuit, and semiconductor engineers as well as for layout and design, floorplanning, and ground rule checking and verification developers who are involved in the manufacturing and design process of semiconductor chips.
It is also useful for graduate and undergraduate students in electrical engineering and semiconductor sciences and can be used on course materials involving ESD and EOS in devices, circuits, chips, and systems. This book offers a useful insight into the issues that confront modern technology as we enter the nanoelectronic era.
