Speaker:
Dr. Michael Stockinger
Freescale Semiconductor, Austin TX
Title:
On-Chip ESD Protection with Active MOSFET Rail Clamps
Abstract:
Over the past 10 years, there has been a gradual revolution in the world of ESD design for advanced CMOS ICs. On-chip ESD networks built with non-snapback ESD devices and circuits, including simple forward biased diodes and active MOSFET rail clamp circuits have largely replaced once prevalent networks built with snapback ESD devices. Non-snapback devices enjoy several advantages in process portability, scalability, layout area and ease of compact modeling for circuit simulations in SPICE. In this seminar the presenter will review key elements in typical active ESD networks and discuss distributed rail clamp configurations, focusing on Freescale's advanced CMOS ESD protection
methodology.
Biography:
Michael Stockinger was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1970. He received the degrees "Dipl.-Ing." (M.S.) and "Dr. Tech." (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from the Vienna Technical University in 1996 and 2000, respectively. During his doctoral research he focused on the optimization of ultra-low-power CMOS transistors. He held summer positions at Alcatel Austria (1991), Siemens Austria (1992 and 1993), Motorola Austin TX (1998), and Intel Hillsboro OR (1999.) In 2000 he joined Freescale Semiconductor in Austin TX where he has been working in the field of ESD protection for advanced CMOS processes. Dr. Stockinger received the awards "Promotio Sub Auspiciis Presidentis Rei Publicae" from the President of Austria and the Appreciation Award for Education, Science, and Culture from the Austrian Department of Science and Education, both in 2000. He was awarded the 2001 EOS/ESD Symposium Best Paper Award and the 2003 EOS/ESD Symposium Best Paper and Best Presentation Award from the ESD
Association. He has authored and co-authored 18 technical papers and is a member of IEEE, the SRC, and the ESD
Association. Dr. Stockinger has served as a technical program committee member of the EOS/ESD Symposium and the International Reliability and Physics Symposium. He holds one patent on ESD design, with several others pending.