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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2023
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Wan-Yen Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Bo-Ting Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10D 89/60 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10D 89/819 (2025.01);
Abstract
A method of protecting a device (protected device) (in a semiconductor system from an electrostatic discharge (ESD)) includes: coupling the protected device between a first node and a first reference voltage; coupling an ESD device between the first node and the first reference voltage; and selectively and actively coupling an input of the ESD device to a second reference voltage thereby selectively and actively turning on the ESD device.