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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Applicant:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eric Braun, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/04 (2006.01); H01L 29/10 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/046 (2013.01); H01L 27/0207 (2013.01); H01L 27/0266 (2013.01); H01L 29/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ESD protection circuit having a discharging transistor and a body snatching circuit. The discharging transistor is electrically coupled between a first node and a second node. The gate and the body of the discharging transistor are electrically coupled together. The body snatching circuit receives the voltages at the first and second nodes and outputs either the voltage at the first node or the voltage at the second node based on which of these two voltages have a lower value. The output voltage of the body snatching circuit is provided to the body of the discharging transistor.