Infineon Technologies Ag

Marco Troost

Andreas B&auml;nisch

The semiconductor component has ESD protective elements configured outside the semiconductor body. The ESD protective elements connect an additional conductor track that carries a reference potential to conductor tracks of the leadframe. ESD protective structures integrated on the semiconductor body are no longer required. The correspondingly high area consumption is avoided.

Semiconductor component with ESD protection

An integrated semiconductor circuit is described and has a semiconductor memory configuration embedded in a semiconductor chip and an interface circuit. The interface circuit is set up for the connection and transfer of data and control signals between the semiconductor memory configuration and a circuit periphery surrounding the memory configuration. The interface circuit is configured as a standard interface for all types of integrated semiconductor circuits with an embedded semiconductor memory configuration for the largest bit width that can be realized in the semiconductor memory configuration. A switch configuration is provided which switches off bits of the standard interface that are unused for smaller bit widths.

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Passau, Germany

Marco Troost