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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2004
Fu-hing Ho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick J. Crotty, San Jose, CA (US);
Fu-Hing Ho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick J. Crotty, San Jose, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection circuit activates an ESD conduction circuit in response to an ESD event. A deactivation circuit generates an exponentially increasing deactivation signal in response to the ESD event, such that once the deactivation signal has increased to a trigger point of a control circuit, the ESD conduction circuit is deactivated. An active resistance component within the deactivation circuit incorporates a biasing element to maintain a resistance value of the active resistance component substantially constant over all operating conditions.