| US 7,457,087 B2 | ||
| Electrostatic discharge protective circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit using the same | ||
| Koichi Sato, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 11, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/776,528. | ||
| Application 11/776528 is a division of application No. 11/094091, filed on Mar. 29, 2005, granted, now 7,256,976. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-155051 (JP), filed on May 25, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0013232 A1, Jan. 17, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. H02H 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 361—56 | 9 Claims |

| 1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising:
an internal circuit to be protected from an ESD voltage connected between a first power source terminal to which a predetermined
voltage is applied and a second power source terminal to be energized;
a first MOS device which is logically controlled by the internal circuit and which configures a buffer circuit in which one
of a drain and a source of the first MOS device is connected to an output terminal;
an ESD protective circuit having a discharge path connected between the output terminal and the second power source terminal
and having a trigger terminal; and
a trigger circuit connected between the other of the drain and the source of the first MOS device and the trigger terminal
of the ESD protective circuit;
wherein the first MOS device functions as the buffer circuit at a time of normal operation state when an ESD voltage is not
applied, and when the ESD voltage is applied, the first MOS device makes a trigger current flow from the first MOS device
to the ESD protective circuit via the trigger circuit; and
wherein a positive power source voltage is applied to the first power source terminal, the first MOS device is a first NMOS
device, the buffer circuit includes a first PMOS device connected between the first power source terminal and the output terminal,
and a second NMOS device which is connected between the output terminal and the second power source terminal, the trigger
circuit includes a second PMOS device in which a source and a drain are connected between the source of the first NMOS device
and the trigger terminal, and a gate connected to the first power source terminal, and the first NMOS device functions as
a part of the buffer circuit at the time of normal operation state when an ESD voltage is not applied, and when the ESD voltage
is applied, functions to generate a trigger current which flows from the first NMOS device to the ESD protective circuit via
the second PMOS device.
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