High-frequency switching device incorporating an inverter circuit

• US 6,978,122 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2002
• Issued: 12/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawakyu, Katsue, Kaneta, Naotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro, Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Persino, Raymond B.
• Application Number:
  US10/153,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20020177415A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,306 Days
• Field of Search: 455/338, 455/334, 455/280, 455/78, 455/80, 455/81, 455/82, 327/83, 327/379, 327/380, 327/381, 327/408, 327/427, 327/564, 327/565
• US Class Current: 455/80
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48247 connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48257 connecting the wire to a die pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/49171 Fan-out arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/13091 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor [MOSFET]
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/08122 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/08142 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/693 Switching arrangements with several input- or output-terminals, e.g. multiplexers, distributors logic circuits H03K19/00; code converters H03M5/00, H03M7/00

Abstract

A high frequency switching device includes a control terminal, a power source terminal, a GND terminal, an RF terminal, a switch section, a control section, and protecting diodes. The switch section switches input/output routes of an RF signal input from the RF terminal. The control section controls the switching section, and is connected to the control terminal and the power source terminal. The protecting diodes are provided between the control terminal and the RF terminal, between the control terminal and the GND terminal, and between the power source terminal and the GND terminal.

Claims

1. A high frequency switching device comprising:

a control terminal;

a power source terminal;

a GND terminal;

an RF terminal;

a switch section which switches input/output routes of an RF signal input from the RF terminal;

a control section which controls the switching section, the control section connected to the control terminal and the power source terminal; and

protecting diodes provided between the control terminal and the RF terminal, between the control terminal and the GND terminal, and between the power source terminal and the GND terminal.

2. The high frequency switching device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first terminal of the control section, the first terminal connected to the control terminal;

a second terminal of the control section, the second terminal connected to the power source terminal;

a third terminal of the control section, the third terminal connected to the GND terminal,

resistor elements provided between the first terminal of the control section and the control terminal, between the second terminal of the control section and the power source terminal and between the third terminal of the control section and the GND terminal.

3. The high frequency switching device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a capacitor element provided between an output terminal of the control section for controlling the switch section and the GND terminal.

4. The high frequency switching device according to claim 1, wherein the protecting diodes comprise diodes connected in the opposite directions.

5. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 1, wherein the control section comprises:

an inverter circuit including FETs;

a source follower circuit including the FETs, which shifts a level of a gate voltage applied to a gate of the FET included in the inverter circuit so as not to exceed a Schottky voltage; and

a resistor element provided between an output terminal of the source follower circuit and the gate of the FET included in the inverter circuit.

6. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 1, wherein the protecting diodes protect the switch section and the control section from ESD breakdown.

7. A high-frequency switching device comprising:

a control terminal;

a power source terminal;

an RF terminal;

a switch section which switches input/output routes of an RF signal input from the RF terminal and includes a plurality of FETs having gates connected to resistor elements aligned in a row, said switch section including an RF signal wire which is laid above a region where the resistor elements are aligned and through which the RF signal transmits; and

a control section which controls the switching section, the control section connected to the control terminal and the power source terminal.

8. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, wherein a wire connected to an output terminal of the control section for controlling the switch section crosses no RF signal wire.

9. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, further comprising a capacitor element provided between an output terminal of the control section for controlling the switch section and a GND terminal.

10. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, further comprising

a first terminal of the control section, the first terminal connected to the control terminal;

a second terminal of the control section, the second terminal connected to the power source terminal;

a third terminal of the control section, the third terminal connected to a GND terminal,

resistor elements provided between the first terminal of the control section and the control terminal, between the second terminal of the control section and the power source terminal and between the third terminal of the control section and the GND terminal.

11. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, wherein the control section comprises:

an inverter circuit including FETs;

a source follower circuit including the FETs, which shifts a level of a gate voltage applied to a gate of the FET included in the inverter circuit so as not to exceed a Schottky voltage; and

a resistor element provided between an output terminal of the source follower circuit and the gate of the FET included in the inverter circuit.

12. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, wherein the resistor elements are formed of an impurity diffusion layer provided in a semiconductor substrate.

13. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 12, wherein the resistor elements prevent the RF signal from leaking to the gates of the FETs.

14. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 7, further comprising protecting diodes provided between the control terminal and the RF terminal, between the control terminal and a GND terminal, and between the power source terminal and the GND terminal.

15. The high frequency switching device according to claim 14, wherein the protecting diodes comprise diodes connected in the opposite directions.

16. The high-frequency switching device according to claim 14, wherein the protecting diodes protect the switch section and the control section from ESD breakdown.