BJTs as ultra low leakage protection diodes

Well, we Norwegian Blues stun easily. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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A lot of times you just plop in an "off" transistor when a diode would do, simply to get past layout verification tools.

Occasionally you see this done with a P-FET do discharge a node using a parasitic diode from the positive rail.

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Yep. An NMOS, gate to ground thru a resistor, source to ground, drain to pin.... sometimes fancier gimmicks.

I have seen 10-15 device structures for protecting outputs when they are configured as tri-state-when-unpowered ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Forgot a point, seen only recently... a special schematic symbol that describes layers to satisfy the LVS.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson a écrit :

Why the resistor?

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Thanks,
Fred.

Rise-time dependent clamping.

...Jim Thompson

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datasheet

The protection diodes shown are between inputs. Related to inputs, note those to the substrate (V-) and if implemented, those to the supply are most definitely not shown. For both digital and analog devices, note protection diodes to the substrate are not shown. And diodes to the supply (if added) seem to be almost state secrets..

datasheet

There's a good OP27 model on my website... one I did in the early '90's.

...Jim Thompson

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          Obama... Recklessness Cloaked in Righteousness

I'm not sure how other people's brains work, but mine is some sort of massively-parallel possibility generator, followed by a does-it-make-sense filter--cultivated over time--then some I/O.

At least that's its creative process. Possibly related to the left-handed, quasi-ambidextrous thing--that changes brains.

Thoughts aren't in any spoken language, but in some sort of parallel machine language where multiple ideas fire in 300mS, which, if interesting, are sampled / latched in snapshots, separated, sorted, parallel-to-serial converted, then translated into language for expression.

Lots of times the thinking parts sit back and listen, amused, while the talking part spools output.

Talking fast enough to voice the chaos is impossible by factors.

The filter's the difference between madness and sanity.

Weird, huh?

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Cheers,
James Arthur

Yes. There seems to be some massively parallel idea generator that can be carefully primed and then let loose. It definitely runs subconscious, background, often during sleep. It's not quantitative but can make some pretty good guesses.

Why work at designing when you can do it painlessly in background?

I suspect that DNA designs, say, antibodies by a similar algorithm, some sort of massive, random set of cross-correlation experiments.

John