Robert C Ruth

US Patent:

20200309834, Oct 1, 2020

Filed:

Mar 26, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/365415

Inventors:

- Austin TX, US
Robert Scott RUTH - Kittredge CO, US
Emmanuel U. ONYEGAM - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G01R 29/08
H02H 1/00
G01R 29/12

Abstract:

An electrostatic discharge measuring device includes an integrated circuit including a collector, a discharge pad and an ESD detector circuit coupled to the collector and discharge pad. The ESD detector circuit includes a device that detects occurrence and magnitude of an electrostatic discharge between the collector and the discharge pad. In one embodiment, the device is a metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor. In another embodiment, the device is a thin film storage bitcell. In one embodiment, the electrostatic discharge measuring device is contained in a test microelectronic package. A method includes running the test microelectronic package through a manufacturing process to determine location during manufacturing at which an electrostatic discharge occurs when an externally-similar production microelectronic packages is run through the same manufacturing process.