Re: non-monotonicity

> Tom Dagostino wrote:
>
> After measuring 1000's of I/O pins I can say with much certainty that
> not
> all clamp "diodes" behave monotonically in the "forward bias region".
> Typical of this behavior are ground protection devices that show abrupt
>
> increases in current when swept from a negative voltage to ground.
>
>
> Jon replies:
> Actually, I think we cover this (at least attemp to) using Transit Time.
>
> (we did put that in, didn't we?).
>
>
> jon powell
> Viewlogic
>

To which Stephen responded:

   Yes, transit time is in the spec....although I thought that Tom
was referring to I/V sweeps that were slow enough not to show transit time
effects.

          Regards,
          Stephen Peters
          Intel Corp.
Received on Tue Aug 11 08:23:11 1998