Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Yu-Ann Lai

Chan-Hong Chern

Kun-Lung Chen

Chun-Yi Yang

Ruo-Rung Huang

An apparatus and method for testing gallium nitride field effect transistors (GaN FETs) are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes: a high side GaN FET, a low side GaN FET, a high side driver coupled to a gate of the high side GaN FET, a low side driver coupled to a gate of the low side GaN FET, and a driver circuit coupled to the high side and low side drivers and configured to generate drive signals capable of driving the high and low side GaN FETs, wherein the high and low side GaN FETs and transistors, within the high and low side drivers and the driver circuit, are patterned on a same semiconductor device layer during a front-end-of-line (FEOL) process.

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Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

Yu-Ann Lai