Invention Grant
US09001583B2 On-chip HV and LV capacitors acting as the second back-up supplies for NVSRAM auto-store operation
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作为NVSRAM自动存储操作的第二个备用电源的片上HV和LV电容
- Patent Title: On-chip HV and LV capacitors acting as the second back-up supplies for NVSRAM auto-store operation
- Patent Title (中): 作为NVSRAM自动存储操作的第二个备用电源的片上HV和LV电容
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Application No.: US14053549Application Date: 2013-10-14
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Publication No.: US09001583B2Publication Date: 2015-04-07
- Inventor: Peter Wung Lee , Hsing-Ya Tsao
- Applicant: Aplus Flash Technology, Inc
- Applicant Address: US CA Fremont
- Assignee: Aplus Flash Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Aplus Flash Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Fremont
- Agency: Raywell Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/30 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C14/00 ; G11C16/12 ; G11C16/22

Abstract:
Two on-chip capacitors including one HV capacitor VPPcap and one LV VCC capacitor VCCcap are built over a NVSRAM memory chip as a back-up second power supplies for each NVSRAM cell, regardless of 1-poly, 2-poly, PMOS or NMOS flash cell structures therein. The on-chip HV and LV capacitors are preferably made from one or more MIM or MIP layers for achieving required capacitance. A simplified VCC power system circuit without a need of a State machine designed for performing only one NVSRAM Program operation without Erase operations is proposed for initiating NVSRAM's Auto-Store operation without using any off-chip Vbat and Vcap. During the Auto-Store operation, all HV pumps and oscillators associated with the two on-chip capacitors are shut off once VCC voltage drop is detected by a VCC detector to be below 80% of regular VDD level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140104946A1 ON-CHIP HV AND LV CAPACITORS ACTING AS THE SECOND BACK-UP SUPPLIES FOR NVSRAM AUTO-STORE OPERATION Public/Granted day:2014-04-17
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