Surge protection design with surge-to-digital converter for microelectronic circuits and systems

• Autores: Wen-Chieh Chen, Ming-Dou Ker
• Localización: Microelectronics reliability, ISSN 0026-2714, Nº. 88-90, 2018, págs. 2-5
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A surge protection design with surge-to-digital converter is proposed to provide the surge protection for microelectronic products with more flexible applications. The proposed surge-to-digital converter can transfer the occurrences of the surge events into digital output codes by classifying the voltage levels of surge events. It can be used to avoid unwanted power-on reset action, redundant power consumption, or unexpected soft errors, achieving the stability improvement of microelectronic systems. With this surge-to-digital converter, a surge protection design against a surge test of 25 V can clamp the peak voltage of VDD from 22.2 V to 5.6 V. The proposed converter has been verified in a 0.18-μm CMOS process.