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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
George S Ontko, Houston, TX (US);
David D Wilmoth, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361 91 ; 365228 ;
Abstract
A FAMOS memory bit (40) is protected from voltage spike caused by an electrostatic discharge or otherwise by an ESD protection circuit (12). Responsive to a voltage spike on V.sub.pp, the ESD protection circuit (12) couples the drain of the FAMOS memory bit (40) to V.sub.cc or another high capacitance node.