I looked up the rules, both of which relate to hav...
# ieee-sscs-dc-23
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I looked up the rules, both of which relate to having double guard rings around devices that connect directly to an I/O pad. (One rule is for N-diffusion surrounded by a P-substrate guard ring surrounded by an N-well guard ring, and the other rule is for P-diffusion surrounded by an N-well guard ring surrounded by a P-substrate guard ring).
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@Tim Edwards what could be wrong with this?
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Two p-substrate guard rings don't count as a double guard ring structure. The outer guard ring around your nFET devices needs to be an N-well guard ring.
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So as far as i understand i have to put nwell guard ring over this whole circuit . Is that right
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If you added an n-well guard ring around that structure, it should suffice, yes.
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It will be helpful if you can give example circuit or i can change circuit to let you know if that you mean
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Your transistors connected to the pad should look like this (I can't tell if the third device in your screenshot above is connected directly to the pad or not; if so, then it also needs double guard rings):
Actually I just realized my illustration has triple guard rings. The outermost rings are not necessary.
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@Tim Edwards by putting like double guard ring IO.3a2 and IO.1a2 are gone but a new error like IO.1a2.nwell_guard-dev something like that come
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It says that the nwell used as the guard ring cannot be used as the well for a pFET.
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Yes exactly
Is it false error?
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@Atif Khan I’m thinking that you don’t want to put nwell guard ring over the whole circuit, just around the nmos. I think you want something like this.
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@Mitch Bailey is this structure right, now mu question is yesterday i was trying to do it like that those two error were gone but IO.4 and IO.2 are coming which are about guard ring size
So i have one confusion do i need to make outer guard ring width more than 2 um or i have to make sure inner wanna more than 2 um too?