Low voltage device operable with a high voltage supply

US6150878A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Chip Express (Israel) Ltd. · IL

Inventors

• Uzi Yoeli · Haifa, IL
• Zvi Orbach · Haifa, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 12, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 21, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 12, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10D84/90

Abstract

This invention discloses an integrated circuit device including transistors having predetermined upper voltage limits, a multi-layer metal interconnect structure connecting the transistors to each other and to an external voltage source having a voltage in excess of the predetermined upper voltage limits of a first plurality of the transistors, and a voltage reducer connected along the interconnect structure between the external voltage source and the first plurality of the transistors.