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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Wolfgang Soldner, Munich, DE;
Harald Gossner, Riemerling, DE;
Inventors:
Wolfgang Soldner, Munich, DE;
Harald Gossner, Riemerling, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
AN ESD protection arrangement is provided which comprises an ESD protection device coupled between a terminal pad of an integrated semiconductor circuit and a supply voltage rail and a compensation loop provided between the terminal pad and an internal circuit node of the ESD protection device. The compensation loop comprises a phase shifting element to provide a predetermined phase shift between an input voltage of the ESD protection device and a compensation voltage supplied to the internal circuit node of the ESD protection device.