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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas E. Morf, Gross, CH;

Thomas H. Toifl, Zurich, CH;

Jonas R. Weiss, Hirzel, CH;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/00 (2006.01); H02H 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit for providing ESD protection to an ESD protected circuit. The protection circuit comprises a signal pad and a crossover network for separating wanted electrical data signals and ESD signals according to their frequency. The protection circuit further comprises a first branch configured to transmit at least a spectral part of the wanted electrical data signals between the signal pad and the ESD protected circuit and a second branch configured to receive the ESD signals from the signal pad. Additionally there is provided a corresponding method, a corresponding integrated circuit chip and a corresponding design structure.


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