ESD protection design for CMOS RF integrated circuits is proposed in this paper by using the stacked polysilicon diodes as the input ESD protection devices to reduce the total input capacitance and to ...

The challenge in RF ESD protection circuit design, still a problem in definition, is to address the complex interactions between the ESD protection network and the circuit being protected in both ...

Discover a novel input protection scheme for CMOS RF ICs using thyristor devices only. Our study compares it with a conventional scheme, focusing on robustness against HBM ESD. Findings include ...

The RF libraries include analog signal pads and ESD protection components for RF applications. These libraries are offered as a supplement to the stan ...

At our company, we used failure analysis (FA) to successfully determine what caused GaAs RF ICs to fail during retesting. In our case, the source of the damage turned out to be just as important as ...

These robust diodes can safely absorb repetitive ESD strikes (±15kV contact discharge) without performance degradation above the maximum level specified in the IEC61000-4-2 international standard.

When designing HDMI systems, using ESD protection devices that can operate at 3.4 GHz without affecting the signal integrity minimizes design headaches, increases system margin, and facilitates ...