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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1993
Rick C Jerome, Puyalup, WA (US);
Brian McFarlane, Campbell, CA (US);
Frank Marazita, San Jose, CA (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A bipolar lateral device is disclosed having a high BV.sub.ceo. The device is formed according to a single polysilicon process. In one embodiment silicide is excluded from the surface of the N+ doped polysilicon protecting the N- base width region of the device and the resulting device has a BV.sub.ceo of 8 to 10 V. In another embodiment, the silicide is excluded from the surface of the polysilicon protecting the n-base width region and the polysilicon is maintained as intrinsic polysilicon. The resulting device has a BV.sub.ceo of about 20 V. The devices are useful as voltage clamping devices in programmable logic circuits which must withstand a collector to emitter reverse bias voltage that is sufficient to program either vertical fuse or lateral fuse devices.