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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Xiaodong Jin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sehat Sutardja, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Lawrence Tse, Fremont, CA (US);
King Chun Tsai, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaodong Jin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sehat Sutardja, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Lawrence Tse, Fremont, CA (US);
King Chun Tsai, San Jose, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A method for reducing a parasitic capacitance of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit for an integrated circuit (IC) includes providing an ESD protection circuit including a plurality of transistors; coupling one end of a resistor to a shared drain of the plurality of transistors; and coupling an opposite end of the resistor to at least one of an input pad of the IC, a blocking capacitor of the IC and a transistor in the IC.