Investigation of signal integrity issues in multi-path electrostatic discharge protection device

Author

Yang-Chih Huang ; Tzong-Lin Wu ; Chung-Hao Chen

Author_Institution

Grad. Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2015

fDate

15-21 March 2015

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

192

Abstract

This paper studies signal integrity issues in a multi-path electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device. A commercial four-path ESD protection device is investigated as a case study. The insertion loss, mode conversion and crosstalk of the test circuit are measured. Besides, a circuit model is proposed which has the ability to explain the behavior of the ESD protection device in insertion loss, mode conversion and crosstalk up to 10 GHz. The model is SPICE-compatible and can be used in SPICE-like simulator. Comparison between simulation by ADS and measurement results are also shown. By investigating the model, mechanisms for those non-ideal effects are discussed in this paper as well.

Keywords

SPICE; crosstalk; electrostatic discharge; protection; SPICE-like simulator; circuit crosstalk; commercial four-path ESD protection device; insertion loss; mode conversion; multipath electrostatic discharge; nonideal effects; signal integrity; Crosstalk; Electrostatic discharges; Inductance; Insertion loss; Integrated circuit modeling; Layout; Loss measurement; Signal integrity; crosstalk; electrostatic discharge; insertion loss; mode conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal Integrity, 2015 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1992-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMCSI.2015.7107683

Filename

7107683