摘要 |
An integrated power supply circuitry that supplies power in an integrated circuit to a chip may provide protection against transistor junction breakdowns from a supply voltage. For example, in a nonvolatile memory, such as a flash memory, a transistor PN-junction breakdown (e.g., a gate-aided drain-substrate PN-junction breakdown (BVD)) of metal silicon oxide (MOS) transistors may be prevented even though the supply voltage exceeds the BVD voltage limit thereof.
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