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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2023
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Gijs Jan de Raad, Bemmel, NL;
Mikhail Yurievich Semenov, Zelenograd, RU;
Yury Vladimirovich Alymov, Zelenograd, RU;
Elena Valentinovna Somova, Solnechnogorsk, RU;
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Electrostatic discharge protection circuitry includes a transistor pass-gate coupled between potential source of electrostatic discharge-driven current ('ESD current') and an input node of a circuit block is configured provide a sufficiently resistive current path between a first current terminal and a second current terminal of the pass gate such that, when an amount of charge sufficient to cause an ESD event accumulates at the potential ESD current source, a sufficient voltage drop occurs across the pass gate such that devices coupled to the input node of the circuit block are protected from experiencing a voltage drop across them that is above a predetermined threshold voltage.