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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2018
Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited, London, GB;
Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
An overvoltage protection circuit for a transistor device is presented. The overvoltage protection circuit comprises a first pin coupled to a gate terminal of the transistor device, an electrostatic discharge protection circuit coupled between a second pin and a source terminal of the transistor device, a first diode coupled between the first pin and the second pin, and a second diode coupled in parallel to the first diode between the first pin and the second pin. The forward direction of the first diode is opposite to the forward direction of the second diode. In addition, A method of measuring a gate leakage current of a transistor device and a method of bonding a transistor device coupled to such an overvoltage protection circuit are presented.