The trench isolation process have the advantage of reducing chip area, lower capacitance characteristic, and reducing lateral current leakage. It could provide the flexibility of chip design if designer would like to combines other optional process (for example: BJT base TVS, Diode base TVS, etc.).
The deep trench isolation (DTI) process and shallow trench isolation (STI) process, both are available in Episil. The trench depth is from 1um (minimum depth of STI process) to 22um (maximum depth of DTI process).
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